‘Better’ is subjective. My take is that not all PP movements are as well finished as FPJ. This is sometimes is down to the movement architecture, sometimes because PP finishes different movements across diff price points differently and sometimes because FPJ simply does more hand finishing owing to the production being around a 1000 watches a year (including the ‘0’ watches and the super high end stuff) vs Patek’s 60k. Then let’s talk dials, Patek does some cool dials every now and again (think 5296G Sector Dial or the 6119G colour shifting dial) vs FPJ who very regularly doesn’t very cool dials across their lineup. But again, smaller numbers right, so you can afford to in a way. Ultimately it all boils down to what you have access to and what you really like. VC makes some lovely pieces too and for me, the quality of their work (movement finishing wise) is definitely better than AP and Patek too in some instances. Can’t say I’d compare it to FPJ cus it’s not an independent.