Here is a table of my findings about watches, their brands sorted in quality groups. First team are the best watches around, Second team if you can't find any in the First team and last, but by no means least, Special US team for watches made in USA.
| First team | Second team | Special US team |
|---|---|---|
|
Audemars Piguet Baume & Mercier Blancpain Breguet Breitling Cartier Chopard Chronoswiss Corum Ebel Eterna-Matic Fortis Gerald Genta Girard-Perregaux Heuer IWC Jaeger Le Coultre Longines Mido Movado Omega Patek Philippe Piaget Rolex Ulysse Nardin Universal Vacheron Constantin Zenith |
Aubry Fréres Beuchat Certina Cyma Eberhard Favre Leuba Georg Jensen Harwood Jules Jurgensen Le Phare Le Roy Lemania Meylan Oris Paul Ditisheim Pierce Rado Raymond Weil Revue Thommen Roamer Rotherham Tissot Wittnauer Wyler |
Ball Bulova Elgin Gruen Hamilton Illinois Ingersoll RGM Waltham |
If I would pick the best of the best, then it would be, in alphabetical order:
A Lange & Sohne
Audemars Piguet
Blancpain
Breguet
Girard-Perregaux
IWC, International Watch Company, Schaffhausen
Jaeger le Coultre
Patek Philippe
Ulysse Nardin
Vacheron Constantin
I'm very interested to hear your findings about the best of the best. What is your opinion? Some other brand? Everything OK? Or... Drop me a mail, I would like to get your opinion.