Letter From The Editor: Has The Term 'In-House Movement' Become Obsolete?

One of the first things you learn to do when you become a well-trained watch enthusiast is to say, when you first look at a watch, “yes, but is it an in-house movement?” Arguments about what the term means, about whether any given movement should be called in-house, and whether it is any help at all to worry about it, have been going on for as long as I can remember, and I can remember arguing about it on Usenet Newsgroups in the 1990s. It is at first glance – it seems at first