What are some of your favorite microbrands?

Straight to the point! Really nice video

Thank you for this video - some really unique offerings. I'm really enjoying my Monta Triumph, which I just received.

All great choices. I'm particularly fond of the AnOrdain and Baltic brands. I own a Baltic MR01 and hope one day to add an AnOrdain to my wrist. One other impressive microbrand I would include is Maen. They make some great quality watches for very reasonable prices.

Great lineup!

Great video, and a strong list. Halios and Serica are a couple of other big favorites for me!

Boldr and Helm, for sure. Love the jacket/sweater.

My man, I was surprised how good selection you did here. I pick Brew as my favourite. Keep it up!

Great list, the Straum is beautiful.

Good video

You’ve presented some of my favourite micro brands, although Yema is not a micro brand! I really like Direnzo and Zelos, too! Subscribed!

Personally my favorite micro brand is vario, they are mainly known for there ww1 field watch but they also got a cool art deco one

Some good brands there. To add some: Balticus from Poland, Duckworth Prestex and Christopher Ward from UK, Circula from Germany.

Great video!! I would Definitely add MING.

You should check out Out Of Order from Italy, Malm from Swede, Horpa from India, and S.U.F. from Finland

Kurono Tokyo is another one with INCREDIBLE dials

How about some quartz options?

A little helping hand for ya lorier pronounce it Lori-eh. Great video and AWESOME LIST

Zelos, Steinhart, Dievas and Boldr to name a few

-Undone. They make a little bit of everything from serious looking divers to fun cartoon designs. A very fun brand to check out. -Lum-Tec. Just serious looking tool watches that has their own identity.

good brand selections here. feedback: the video chapters/sections have typos and at times don't line up with what you're presenting, some brands are also missing

I would add zelos and traska

I love Marloe watches for their design, ability to tell a story and value for money. I feel they should get an honourable mention.

Formex and Monta trounces all of these when it comes to finishing and bracelet quality

Where can I buy that sweater?

Love my silent Service from Ginault

Depancel from France is also great

Charlie Paris and Wolbrook are nice brands!

Farer Universal and Brew are my two favorites.

Even if it's a pleasure to see 2 brands from France, Yema is not a micro brand. Founded in 1948, it has been a big brand, before quartz crisis.

Good list, and the more extensive article with links to the 62 brands was very useful. I'd add a couple of my favorite microbrands. Dekla is a small German brand with a variety of traditional and modern pilot watches as well as several other models. The watches are highly configurable in terms of looks and features and each watch is built to order. Priced at less than $1000. I love the brand and my "Type A' flieger in bronze. The Cincinnati Watch Company is an American brand that uses Swiss movements. I own a pilot watch, the P-40M with a design based on the mechanical clock in a WWII fighter and a "Centurion," a field watch watch. Each watch is assembled in Ohio and regulated by the brand's in-house watchmaker. I own both a P-40M and a Centurion, each of which averages less than 2 seconds deviation from "true" time (based on satellite reference.)

Helm Watches

Nice content, but one can clearly notice that you're reading from a prompter and that feels a bit unnatural...

Having one of these list and not including CW feels like it should be a bit impossible at this point.

I also like Maen

Kurono Tokyo and Ming

Glad I found your channel. A suggestion if I may - Relax. Your presentation style makes me think you might be a bit nervous & in dire need of a Crown & Coke. Nice jacket btw.

How can you do a top 10 microbrand video without including Ming?!

Kind of annoying how some of these microbrands are starting off with $1000+

The Straum watch you reviewed has been discontinued. If you want to buy a watch from the brand you’ll have to shell out 1600 euros.

I do have a soft spot for anOrdain but I have a different opinion about the microbrands you featured here. First the positive. Microbrands are proliferating around the world. This is great news for the future of horology. Microbrands won't topple the big boys anytime soon but the Swiss and Germans are being chased. Competition is good. It may take 20 years but there might come a day when Rolex loses its swag. "Time will tell." Now for the critique. None of these watches are persuasive to me. Brands that rely on the same tropes, like diving, racing, and aviation shows a lack of imagination and only reinforces established forbearers. How many more Submariner clones must we see? Microbrands must carve out a unique niche. A few innovative and singular microbrands are Ming, Ressence, and MIH. Microbrands must either innovate or if they choose the traditional route, their work must compare favorably with the great classics, like the Submariner, Patek Ref 96, or Cartier Tank Louis, an almost impossible undertaking. Few microbrands both engineer brilliant movements and design beautiful timeless dials. There's a reason why Kikuchi Nakagawa is focused on perfecting what's already perfect, slow and steady, the Japanese way.

anOrdain is not even taking people on to their waitlist...

How many of these watches do YOU actually buy with YOUR OWN money?

CHRISTOPHER WARD ????

Baltic #2? No way. Especially not for diving. Maybe for floating.I had a Baltic for 2 years and it could not keep time. Sent it back to France three times to be fixed and they couldn’t fix it. Nor would they replace it. Not a good idea to advocate diving with one.

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Yema micro brand ? Affordable price? 1000euro/ + / Are you lost your mind? SHАМЕ Yema is the biggest French watch manufacturer ! They started 1948 ! You don't become a hot dog seller, either ! 😢

Just like Melissa McCarthy and Margot Robbie are both women...There is a major difference between the two....Same thing goes for watches...Stick with the big brands.