So it is not only me who is annoyed by the world getting cheaper and cheaper. That is good to hear. Here in Germany we have a electronics supermarket that advertises with a slogan "Geiz ist geil" that BBC translated to "Being stingy is cool". (First time I see a sentence that is shorter in German than in English.) The bad thing is that this slogan very quickly entered into people's daily talk and that they believed it. I cannot say if the sentiment was there first or the advertisement. But at least it expresses the zeitgeist perfectly.
I believe that being quite fed up with this spirit is one of the main reasons why I feel myself so drawn towards G.O. You described perfectly the core of the brand: Handmade in Germany. And one only needs to go to Glashütte to convince himself that it is true. A very pleasurable experience.
Of course we have to pay (sometimes much)more for quality and for things that last. But that is probably the only way to make them survive.
