I love Nato straps. They are the most comfortable straps. I love how many color options there are now. I get mine from AliExpress. Nothing fancy. I don't need them to be single pass just that original Nato fit is perfect for me.

Gotta love that dirty dozen design. Vario has dome great offerings.

More then that I don't just think it's Grand Seiko saying "Look, I can do that too" as much as it is them saying "Anything you can do I can do better". Pretty much on par with everything they've done do far. I feel like they have a history of outperforming the rest of the industry. For example that tourbillon is one of the most beautiful skeleton watches I have seen and I wish they did the blue corundum instead if the red with more of their timepieces. If you compare their offerings this year against what Rolex considered new this year they really made a huge impression on the industry if you ask me. I'm a huge fan. With their pricepoints it's really hard to compete with them.

Teddy has Zelos if you are around Cleveland but if you want to see them in the shop you have to call a couple days ahead.

Independant not Micro

Their quality is more impressive then their availability. I didn't mention them because they are limited it was just part of my description. My experience with these brands is hands on not from watching YouTube reviews. I'm more interested in aesthetics not availability. Limiting availability is just smart marketing strategy. It gets people off the fence. But don't take my word fir anything I say. Go checkout the reviews on these brands and see if you can find any that are negative. Another brand you may want to check out is Wise. I can't say I've had my hands on any of these like I can with Kurono or Zelos but I also have yet to see a negative review of Wise timepieces. The brands I mentioned are also not making a name for themselves building homage timepieces like a lot if the other suggestions I see mentioned in the comments here.

Zelos has really nice limited edition watches for their price range. Amazing bracelets with maybe the best on the fly adjustment mechanism I've seen yet. Great dials and maybe the best lume in the industry.They also started shipping their wayches in nice 3 slot watch rolls. They also have great customer service.

Kurono Tokyo has really nice limited editions. More spendy then Zelos and you'll also have to get on a waiting list. They also have great dials. They have cool packaging.

There are several other brands I think are nice like Nodus, Spinnaker, Fleux and Studio Underdog but these 2 impress me the most all around currently.