I own three Swiss automatics with sw200 I paid less than $550 for. All of them keep time under +1.6 seconds a day.
None of my Japanese autos are even close at any price. Two of my Swiss watches were under $250. The premise of this post relies on a person not doing their research and not testing a watch when they receive it to make sure it's under +/-2 seconds a day before deciding to keep it
Gevril and glycine both make low cost very accurate watches at prices less than Seiko. Period
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