About a year ago, I got a chance to sit down with 1776 Atelier founder Jason Lu. In short, he told me what I hear from a lot of people who start a watch brand: He loves watches, and so he started a brand. There’s obviously more to it than that, and one of the defining traits of his brand is that he’s striving to be as American-made as possible without going fully insane on pricing. The debut Mount...