Not directed at Alex Ghotbi or VC (I consider Alex a personal friend and he is, historically, the VERY FIRST PERSON to ever post on a PuristS forum, and as such, is an Original Purist Emeritus) specifically, but you and I both know that marketing materials and articles need to be taken in their proper and intended context.
I challenge anyone inside VC to make the public statement that they have ever produced an exclusive, completely inhouse wristwatch calibre prior to the recent ones (since the late 1990's.)
And the first one that was claimed as inhouse? Do we really need to get into the dirty laundry of who actually created that movement, who it was originally intended for (a haute de gamme brand of another large high horology group) and how VC ended up with it? and what the quid pro quo was?
The problem with history? It already happened, so no matter how the revisionists want to pretend it happened differently, how it happened, already happened.
So please, passion, yes, but please, tempered by reasonableness.
We all share the same interests here, amigo.