Patek owners - Experience with independent brands e.g. Greubel

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Originally Posted by ChetBaker

You do have to wonder, if every fresh out of école watchmaker is making exceptional watches nowadays, how exceptional they really are. Most of them are lovely looking (love the Brette!) but many of them are ambitiously priced and only sell in very small quantities that are set below known demand. Of course they sell out in this market.

I'm with you. Out of all the watches and their respective watchmakers Ichiran mentioned in his post, only the Krayon watches really stand out to me. Their complication might be useless, but at least it's something new (at least to my knowledge).

Not to say I don't like how the other watches look, but it seems like you can get great finishing from pretty much every independent nowadays. Complication, innovation, not so much.