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Like wefalck, I would be interested to know who builds these and what happened to those old guys. My curiosity has no limits. Perhaps they were the original distributors for most of these producers, and are now specialty middlemen for "fat" products that can be hand finished and boxed in the EU for markup and resale to the commercial "Made in Germany" trade (Flume, Boley GMBH, etc.) If the raw materials, alloys and treatments are decent, though few rest or age cast iron anymore, many modern machine tools can be made cost-efficiently useful through inspection and hand finishing of the work that the Chinese (or Indians, for that matter) started, but did not finish. Steffen Gotteswinter has moved on, but aptly demonstrated this cost-conscious and quality focused principle in some of his older videos, but for larger work, when he had more time on his hands.it has a Sincere label
Ortlieb today are 30 minutes from Esslingen and, according to their website, are still making high quality clamping and work-holding technology, but not small or for watchmakers, etc. The modern watch industry has changed such that many standard old tools are now practically obsolete. It's just for restoration of old and rare things now. This is why I work on clocks, and will probably drift over to model making someday...made by a company called Ortlieb