I'm not trying to be a wise-ass, but you're correct that this has been discussed in many, many threads, and you might want to use the search feature as a start. If you find that people haven't volunteered the names of their watchmakers publicly in the past, they are unlikely to do so now. It seems overwhelmingly likely that you will just get the usual suspects mentioned over and over again.
I would recommend my watchmaker to someone who I knew to be a trustworthy and serious collector ... someone who is a "friend" on the forum. But I wouldn't put his name out there publicly so a bunch of yahoos could start pestering him. He, like most good watchmakers, isn't hurting for work. So an alternative (and probably more successful) approach would be to establish yourself as a serious person on the forum, develop some relationships, and request the names of watchmakers privately via PM.
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