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Interesting. It seems that the luxury image is more a burden than an advantage to many manufacturers. But the brand ownership is concentrated and the owners mig
by professorumbra 10y ago
Interesting. It seems that the luxury image is more a burden than an advantage to many manufacturers. But the brand ownership is concentrated and the owners might not care about those kind of difficulties.
I'm more of a fan of utilitarian watches anyways. Sinn for example makes very affordable tool watches that are also technologically on par with many luxury brands.
- hanklazard 10y agoYeah, Sinn is a great brand and probably in a price range that seems more sane than some of the entry level Rolex, Panerai, JLC, etc. I have a Sinn 556i and it is probably one of my favorite watches. As much as I don't want to have two Sinn's out of principle, the 104 is also a gorgeous watch. Another point about Sinn is that they use pretty standard movements, like the ETA 2824, which could easily be swapped out or serviced by most any watchmaker--it's this ease of servicing that is making me think twice about moving up into some of the more expensive Swiss/German pieces with unique in-house movements. For those reading this who are not familiar with mechanical watch service costs, fancier Swiss watches like AP and others can cost 1500$ or more just for the watch equivalent of a "tune-up."
- eps 10y agoYou say Sinn, I say Damasko :) http://www.damasko-watches.com/ http://www.damasko-watches.com/ Very impressive line-up of in-house technologies for watches that retail for a couple of grand or less.
- professorumbra 10y agoYeah, Damasko is another good example. Their metallurgy tech is really impressive.