Independents

Who do you guys think is out there and relatively unrecognized/doing great work at the price point? Examples: -First run of pascal coyon -Initial Felipe Pikullik (although I think his work is still great value for what you get)

You can @ me all day on this one.

Have you handled one his watches?

I haven't bought a new watch in years becuase I keep asking myself, "how does this new one fill a hole in my collection?" And each time the answer is that it doesn't.

A collector I meet with frequently in HK had referenced him in advance of the first watch. Even though the price point wasn’t crazy (and almost modest, if you can say that about thousands of dollars, by comparison to the II pricing), it was still way too ... 

In a much more modest price range i have found these two to my liking.

NT

Love how thin they are too

You had no excuse for missing it

Lecomte and Otsuka Lotec🍻

Still not really recognized, still underrated. Of course if you mean by independents some 1-3 person operation in startup mode, they will not qualify.

But like almost everything the prices went up significantly for most independents . Habring or Kudoke maybe still a bang for your buck imo ...  

You can find pre owned a bargain. Same for Ralph Lauren (yeah, not really indie buuut..). Pierre Kunz also never really hit the mainstream. Perhaps Vincent Calabrese, the engineer behind Corum's Golden Bridge? Obviously never handled their pieces but Str...