Just for the record there are very few company making balance spring in the whole Switzerland. Most companies outsource tons of parts (yes including Patek and AP. I was at H. Moser Factory and they are a company that's one of the few companies making their own balance spring (and they make it for other well known brands) The reason why outsourcing parts is common is because the amount of specific machinery that's required to manufacture each part. In fact Some machines only exist at certain factories because they have been custom made.

the actual irony being that actual watch enthusiasts can see the value of Hublot in the industry

My friends has a Hublot bigbang in gold , people always comment on it . 😅

Well, first thing I strongly recommend to anyone, is to not get under pressure from anyone, let alone some youtubers, to make their purchase choices. So called watch community, whatever that means, developed a nasty way of judging people by what they put on their wrists - they would criticize Hublot or similar brands for lack of mechanical innovation, lack of quality or no in-house movements, but at the same time they praise Rolex, who has not been innovating for a loooong time, produces mostly boring watches, of quality far worse then i.e. Grand Seiko - who guys like Nico do not even pay much attention to (as he pays attention to re-sale value, nothing else). I am tempted to buy Hublot just to show my middle finger to all those watch snobs. Look at those ugly pieces Richard Mille does - they are as ostentatious as Hublot, they are made for people with zero taste (seriously, check who actually wears them, certainly noone you would accuse of having some class....), but are even more expensive, yet Nicos of the world love'em.

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tag Nico

solid content from a non-hate , non-biased person delivering an objective view point about Hublot.

Hublot is beautiful and priceless.

It is ridiculous that you justify hate on a company because they charge what the market will bear as evidenced by the fact that Hublot is the 12th biggest seller of the Swiss watchmakers.

Only the classic fusion model has a 3rd party movement.