In-House Watches for Less Than $6K

For some reason folks always want a manufacture watch, but they don't usually want to spend $8K+ for one. I can understand that so here is a listing of brands that I can think of and that have at least one model that costs less than $6K. Some of these brands have many models below that price point.



I've emboldened some that I think many folks have never heard of but that are seriously worth looking at. I've put question marks next to the one's I'm not 100% sure they have an in-house movement that is also sanely price, but IIRC, they do.

• Seiko - almost every watch they make is in-house, quartz and automatic, but a few aren't


• Citizen (all)


• Nomos


• Alpina just a couple models are in-house


• Damasko


• Frederique Constant - Alpina's dressy brother but more in-house models too


• Universal Geneve - They do a micro rotor automatic similar to PP's but not as elaborately finished. Of course, it's also not as elaborately priced. All the same, not a lot of folks do automatics that allow one to also see much of the movement.


• Tag - three in-house calibres


• Omega


• Seagull


• Wempe


• Pequignet


• Prim


• Raketa (??)


• Chronoswiss (?)


• Dornbluth (?)


• JLC


• Cartier


• Rolex (Air King & Oyster Perpetual)


• Zeitwinkel


• Paul Gerber (http://ift.tt/1dkL616).

I know there are more that are escaping me right now...



All the best.