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[Question] What is a watch brand that you feel like flies under the radar? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by ncrow10@alien.top to c/watches@style.land

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Do you have a watch brand you really like that just doesn’t seem to get that much attention online? Like there are some brands really popular in other countries. I like Enicar, I think their vintage watches are really nice.

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[–] AudioMan612@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

RGM: Some of the best American watch making I am aware of.
Roger W Smith: Absolutely top-tier watch making. It really doesn't get much better.
Ulysse Nardin: They've got some uggos, but they've also got some really beautiful and/or interesting pieces. The Freak, Maxi Marine, and their perpetual calendars come to mind.
Moritz Grossman: Very high quality German watches. I really like their power reserve indicators.
Stowa: Known for their Flieger watches, but I think they have a very nice product lineup. I really like the look of their Prodiver dive watches.
Laco: Another German brand known for their Flieger watches, but man, that Frankfurt GMT. It's probably a bit too large for my small wrist, but what a great looking GMT.
Wempe: Another German brand. I really like their use of inner rotating bezels.
Lang & Heyne: A more recent German brand with some absolute stunners.
Mühle Glashütte: One more German brand that I think deserves to be better-known than they are.
Credor: Grand Seiko is having a well-deserved moment. Now look at what Seiko is really capable of.
Kurono Tokyo: Hajime Asaoka knows how to make a pretty watch. I would happily take nearly anything the brand makes.
Minase: Another fantastic Japanese brand with a very attractive modern design language (in my opinion at least).
Ming: Some of the best microbrand watches I have seen to-date.
Casio Oceanus: Very high built quality, some very nice materials, such as Edo Kiriko Glass, and tons of useful functionality. I guess you could describe it as a classy G-Shock.
Christiaan van der Klaauw: Gorgeous planetarium watches.
Pierre DeRoche: Some of their stuff is a bit overstyled for me (mainly the TNT collection, despite the cool retrograde models), but there are a lot of models in the Grandcliff series that I really like.

Some others that I have already seen mentioned here plenty of times that I'll agree with (I think most of these are at least pretty well-known by watch lovers, while the ones I mentioned I think fly under the radar even within the hobby): Zenith, Oris, Nomos, Junghans, Glashütte Original, Damasko, Sinn, Breguet, Jaeger leCoultre, Universal Geneve, Ball, and Orient.