When I was around 5 which would have been in 1953, my brother broke the blade on his Case pocket knife. He mailed it to them and they sent it back fairly soon with a new blade and no charge.
My Father for some reason preferred Queen Steel knives. When he died at 90, I noticed he still had the same old pocket knife. Of course it was worn almost to the point of not being useful anymore. I never did particularly like Queen knives as their stainless blades were always soft.
The German made Puma knives are probably as good as it gets, at least for a reasonable price.
You raise another consideration there for a daily carry knife...price. As noted above, I carry a Kershaw every day. It replaced the Kershaw that disappeared about a year or two ago, which replaced the Kershaw that fell into Galveston Bay a few years before that. There are a ton of far more expensive, far more *exclusive* knives out there, which may (or may not) be better than my Kershaws have been, but I'm sure glad I never paid for one of them!