Hand Finished Brands under $2000

Personally, I think it's highly doubtful that there's any "hand-made" process going on here other than perhaps some cosmetic polishing. I seriously doubt any watchmakers are "hand making" parts. How would they do this? On a manual lathe? That would be extremely time consuming, inaccurate and expensive at German labour rates.

In any case, no watch movement part should need hand finishing as they have been machine-made and interchangeable since the late nineteenth century. Hand finishing just introduces inaccuracy and inconsistency in functional parts.

Nomos Club Campus in 38mm with Manual Wind

To answer both @chrisom and @nichtvondiesemjahrhundert :

1. Almost all mechanical watch movements are hand assembled.

2. That said, there is a vast difference between what I assume to be a giant line of semi skilled labor and the laboratory like facility (dust is very bad for watch components, more so than water, and so these watchmakers look like they are about to walk into biowar).

3. Some manual works matters, some don't, and it's hard to tell which one is which. This also depends on what you are looking for in a watch.

4. It's worth calling out that $2k is a lot of money of what amounts to an antiquated device to kinda sorta tell time. We should expect care and perfection in such purchases.

First and foremost, almost all watch movements are hand assembled. Only a few (Sistem51 FTW!) are not. You should realize that eye-hand coordination is hard for robots. Thus, Amazon keeps on employing humans to walk their warehouses and package their orders. Same here.

Now, for a watch components, some precision masters, some don't. The location of each bearing, obviously, matters a great deal. The shape of the plates, not so much. The teeth of a gears matters, their faces don't as much. So, generally speaking, the CNC would cut out the pieces precisely(or maybe they stamp it; whatever the case). Then, the humans would decorate it on the parts don't matter as much. Even cheap movements have some decorations. Finally, the parts are cleaned and assembled, mostly by hand.

Thus, it's true that almost all watches are hand made. We don't have that many advanced robots around.

Now, as I allured to above, different production lines (all manned by humans) have vastly different expectations and results. A Seiko movement assembled in Malaysia (not that there is anything inherently wrong with the Malays; they just don't receive the same kind of investment) is a completely different beast from a Patek or Omega or, in this case, Nomos. Rushed and output oriented, the mass production system (still "hand made," mind you) produces movements with slightly looser tolerances, and with higher probability of dust communication and incorrect amount of oil. Their decorations are more automated and industrialized. A fine movement, of course, would not have any of these.

A good simile would be fine dining restaurants and McDonald's. The latter, mind you, is still technically "hand made" (as in someone's hand put the buns and the patty and the veggie together). It's not fine dining, ok? The food is engineered to taste ok even if the hands make mistakes. The assembling is sloppy. Still hand made nevertheless.

Back to movements.

Some of the processes of a fine movement matter. Some don't so much. Obviously, as mentioned above, correct amount of lubrication matters, so does care to prevent dust and such. Decoration, to some extent, kinda matters (the groves on the plates and gears catch dust). Some... don't. For example, blue screws probably don't matter anymore, given how well modern materials resist corrosion. I never understand the point of bevelled edges of plates beside how pretty these plates look.

That said, due to how we use watches, even the most useless process might matter (tourbillion, anyone?). Modern watches exist to delight their wearers, and so some stuffs otherwise excessive are done purely to catch our eyes. For example: chronograph clutches. Japanese watches (read: Seiko) prefer vertical clutches, for all the technical reasons (one of the reasons why I love them). But as a rule, Swiss watches prefer horizontal clutches. Why? Because they engage with the users better. So what if a bit more energy is wasted? So what if the precision is a fraction of a fraction of a second off? Look at how cool they work! After all, these technicalities don't really matter. If you want thousandth of a second exactness, you have computer for that.

And final point: $2k is lots of money, ok?

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And back to the original question: is there anyone else doing watch movement as well as Nomos in their price range?

Well, what are you looking for? Modern watch collectors and commentators tend to look down on ebauche movements, as if lack of access to the final process somehow prevents passion and care. It's like saying engineers of GE and Rolls-Royce ain't as good as engineers of Boeing and Airbus because they only work on the engines. Sellita and ETA movements can absolutely be dressed up to the nines and look stunning and work reliably. In fact, shouldn't ETA and Sellita and so on care more for their moments, given that they have nothing else to distract them?

Just my $0.02

I did notice On their website it shows them hand engraving.

They make some nice videos and they have been improving their social media presence