PP has maybe the best marketing department. The way they advertise is remarkable. Apart from usual means of AD they don’t bother to bid on auctions and inflate prices. For example: not long ago a steel chronograph was sold for about 12 mil. dollars. The AD effect of such event yielded much more than
5170 is better. But still is a poor value for money proposition. 5270 is better than 5170. The only Patek movement worth considering is 27-525 that can be found in 5959.
As far as I know PP makes 50-60 thousand watches a year while having several hundred watchmakers. That’s why I suppose none to little is done by hand. Still it is a nice watch