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"movement blank"

Sorry, "movement blank" manufacturer is probably too wide or insufficiently nuanced a phrase to use. From what I understand, it is not anywhere near the same scenario as, say, a brand having base movements manufactured by a third party ebauche manufacturer. This scenario it seems is where Dufour has designed a movement and has asked a third party contractor to do some part of the work (and if it involves the cutting of plates and bridges etc, then this is short of "making a movement blank" surely) and other third party contractors to do other parts of the work and yet still other parts of the work are done by employees and other parts done by the man himself. But none of that diminishes anything in my view. Whether the person doing the work for you is an employee ("in house") or an external contractor (not "in house"), it's still under a contract under which someone else performs services for you - so why do we draw the distinction?

I wrote in another thread that presumably the focus on "in house" is because it's a signpost to quality control, exclusivity, purity, originality or some other values or some combination of them. It would be just as right (and perhaps better) to focus on those values than the means by which one can achieve them (since the ends may be achieved by other means, and the means don't always achieve those ends).