What a day. Monta and Norqain are both good quality watches but are so overcapitalized and marketed to death to watch enthusiasts. Solabs and wen are relatively small, scrappy brands and deserved better.

Agreed Monta is good quality for the price (well it was a few price increases ago; I'd argue others put up similar value now) but, I dunno. I've spent time with both but I bought the solabs.

Fwiw it's not an in house movement, it's generally a sellita with a custom rotor that they've rebranded and hidden with marketing terminology. I'm definitely going so labs for the fun but also for the honesty.