What do you think of micro brands? German?
No doubt Germans makes great watches such as Glashutte, A. Lange & Sohn, Mulle....many more to be named. Well, those are bigger brands with Boutiques worldwide and decent services centers to take care of their after sales services.
What about micro brands? Brands such as Vintage VDB? Many might not hear of them before, but honestly, they do make outstanding Vintage look watches, comes in 3 different category : series models (CNC productions), handmade models & custom models.
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Unfortunately, like most micro brands exist in the market, some model are way over-priced. Those custom made piece's can actually buy an AP or Hublot. Some might argue saying, they're custom made single piece watch which other will not have the same model. Seriously, do you care they comes in single piece or 9999 pieces?
After sales services are mostly a set back for most micro brands in market. Which most of them having a hard time keeping customers in satisfactory status. Two wys to look at it, honestly, you might said, one to ten men micro company having difficult time to settle and solve everything. On the other hand, after sales services are basic requirement for a watch company, whether big or small.
Quality? Issues?
Limited Edition? Issues? Just like Panerai, limited a model for 200 pieces a year, the next year same model being limited again for another 200 pieces. Total lost of value in Limited Edition. I personally would call it limited productions rather than Limited Edition watches.
Many more to be discuss...