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Originally Posted by enjoythemusic
Yes, the Chinese are making interesting value-priced timepieces. A watchmaker on YouTube got an inexpensive Chinese tourbillon and disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled it. Looked quite good accuracy-wise. If other countries put in top effort, we might eventually be seeing some very impressive value-oriented handcrafted and highly decorated timepieces with popular complications. jmho
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That sounds fun, do you have a link to the video? My criticism of all the Chinese movements I've photographed is really just the lack of tidiness and rigorous clean room standards. But that seems easily remedied, so I'd love to see one that's cleaned up properly.