On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 10:11:25 AM UTC-8, Ed Huntress wrote:

Dial indicators and calipers became mostly an American thing after
digitals became popular. Mitutoyo built their dial-indicator factory
in Illinois 25 years ago because there was no substantial market for
them outside of the U.S.


The Tessa Swiss digital caliper is the only one I have ever used that I really like and I've had many. The Mitutoyo digital caliper I had was a total piece of ****.

In general, I find Swiss tools to be far superior to Starrett and Mitutoyo. I started with mostly Starrett and Mitutoyo and moved on to mostly Swiss tools.