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The 25 Greatest Independent Watchmakers in the World
The phrase “independent watchmaker” has two fundamentally different meanings. One refers to a large industrial brand like Rolex that operates independently from a corporate group. These manufacturing firms are sometimes—and perhaps more accurately—referred …