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Well said. Love that story. Thanks for the lesson.
You're welcome. It always been my opinion that one will find movements which will rival each-others in strength and durability even them prices are very different.
For the reliability: It's all about tests, time witnessing and strong mechanical facts.
For the price: It's all about marketing, exclusivity, branding and perception on the market who gets influenced by the last facts(Of course the reliability gets involved).
But I believe that some cheap reliable movements will serve you through time as well as expensive reliable ones.
It's not all about the name and the price: It's all about mechanical features.
Brands like Lemania, Peseux, Valjoux, Fontainemelon, Schild, Unitas etc been helping to write the history of mass produced work-horses.
They was made affordable by the large production in industrial scales at a certain time and somehow with them price sinking down, people started to see less exclusivity and less value in them.
They was as well, never marketed intensively through branding the way we know it now.
Non the less, they might surpass or equal many other expensive movements when facing the wheel of time passing by: Because they often allied the whole right recipe to produce a long lasting movement.
More interesting details on the story I "condensed" : http://www.breitlingsource.com/articles_roff_historymovement.shtml