Is buying a microbrand watch a waste of money?

For servicing of Nomos watches, your local watchmaker can get parts from
Nomos without any issues, just like I do…



All they have to do is contact Nomos, order and pay for the parts.

They are a great company in that regard, and I own one and so does my wife. I would get one of these over a modern Tudor any day of the week. Wearing mine while servicing a customer’s…

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Not a Microbrand in my book. If I worked an office job, there are a few I would buy.

$1000 - $500 watches are Microbrands. Biggest annoyance and fu*ked up thing is when Microbrands are selling a $1000 watch for $4000 and $3000 is for some made up story about the history of the watch……😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨Bremont 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

In the last year I have reached out to both Yema and Nivada Grenchen about getting replacement bezel inserts and have not had success.

Yema actually has a good system for requesting replacement parts, but they no longer have any stock of the insert for my watch.

Nivada Grenchen customer service seemed pretty confused by my request and thought I was trying to submit a warranty claim. I might try again before I have the watch serviced.

I'm disappointed I haven't been able to get the replacement bezel inserts for those watches, so it's definitely something to consider when buying a micro brand. This could be particularly important for parts that wear or scratch fairly easily like an aluminum insert.

For an additional perspective, my experience getting my Baltic serviced was quite good. It was due for a service, which they handle as a movement swap, and one of the pushers had popped off. I was able to send it to Grand Central watch in NY and getting the pusher reattached along with a movement swap completed. It was quite affordable, around $150 from what I remember.