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Three major regions dominate the traditional watchmaking world with Switzerland, Japan and Germany. In this guide, we highlight some of the best and most well-known German watch brands.
In general, a conversation about the top watch producing countries centers around two nations: Switzerland and Japan, with Japan often occupying the more affordable end of the spectrum and Switzerland more commonly associated with luxury watches and high watchmaking. Of course, this is an overgeneralization of the highest degree, as Japan is home to some of the finest purveyors of high watchmaking, and there are indeed great deals to be found from Switzerland. However, the real tragedy here is the omission of the often overlooked superpower in watchmaking that is Germany. Home to dozens of brands, including some of the best in the business according to a variety of metrics, Germany is an excellent country for watchmaking. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at some of the best German watch brands to provide an overview of names you should know if you’re new to German watches. In each synopsis, We'll begin with a bit of history, share a few of the brands' major accomplishments or best-loved models, and say a bit about what they’re up to these days.
Laco began life as Lacher & Co. in 1925 in Pforzheim, where it is still based today. The company is most famously known for being one of the five brands contracted to produce flieger watches (such as the Beobachtungsuhr) for pilots in the German Luftwaffe ― alongside A. Lange & Söhne, Stowa, and Wempe.
The Laco of today continues to be popular for its flieger watches. And unlike IWC and Stowa, Laco doesn’t shy away from using Japanese movements so that it can offer its watches at more affordable prices. For more discerning fans, Laco also has a range of higher-end flieger watches that feature Swiss movements and artificially weathered cases and dials. Not wanting to be boxed in to just making pilot watches, Laco also has a range of divers and dressy, vintage-inspired watches.
Glashütte Original is a relatively young German luxury brand that nevertheless can boast roots reaching all the way back to the mid-19th Century and the birth of watchmaking in the Saxon town of Glashütte. After the Second World War, the Soviet Union, which controlled East Germany and therefore Glashütte, consolidated all of the existing independent watch companies operating in the town (including the original A. Lange & Söhne firm) under one state-owned conglomerate called the Volkseigener Betrieb Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe (GUB). After the Berlin wall fell, and Germany was reunited, the GUB was allowed to be privatized in 1994 and became the Glashütte Original company that we know today.
Its most emblematic watch designs come from the Pano collection, named for, and easily identified by, the large “panorama date” display on the model’s asymmetrical dials. Perhaps the most distinctive execution in the collection is the PanoInverse, in which the back of the movement — with its traditional decorative elements, like Glashütte ribbing and an engraved balance cock —has been flipped to the front to act as the watch’s dial. Recently, Glashütte Original has revived some sporty models from the GUB era, including the Spezimatic SeaQ series of divers’ watches.
Today widely recognized as the paragon of German high watchmaking, A. Lange & Söhne was originally founded by Ferdinand Adolph Lange in 1845 in the village of Glashütte in Saxony, laying the foundation for that town to become the heart of the nation’s watchmaking. In the wake of World War II, and the Cold War-era partitioning of Germany, the company effectively ceased to exist. The modern A. Lange & Söhne was revived in 1990 by Walter Lange, great-grandson of Ferdinand Adolph Lange, in partnership with legendary watch-industry entrepreneur Günter Blümlein.
Though the modern incarnation of A. Lange & Söhne is just slightly more than three decades old, its status among elite watchmakers as one of the world's top luxury watch brands is undeniable, and its core models are recognized as icons: the flagship Lange 1, which serves as the face of the brand, along with trendsetting designs like the Datograph, the Zeitwerk, the Cabaret Tourbillon, and most recently, the luxury-sport Odysseus — all boasting original manufacture movements made in Glashütte, all the way down to the hairsprings.
Founded in 1990, just two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nomos has in its relatively young corporate life risen to become one of the most popular brands in German watchmaking as well as probably the most accessible to newer collectors. Nomos’s success — which includes an impressive string of German design awards for several of its products — has resulted from a combination of sensible pricing, classical Bauhaus design, and outstanding quality. Over the past several years, the brand has been steadfast in its pursuit of developing in-house movements, both manually wound and mechanical, and equipping more of its timepieces with them, gradually replacing the outsourced Swiss movements that animated their predecessors.
Minimalist classics from Nomos’s early days are still among the most popular, such as the Tangente, Orion, and the square-cased Tetra, though the company has also expanded its scope with sportier models like the diving-inspired Ahoi and racing-inspired Autobahn. Nomos has also dabbled in some very bold and eye-catching colorways, as in 2024’s Tangente 38 series celebrating 175 years of Glashütte watchmaking, and 2025’s Neomatik World Timers.
Steinhart was founded by Günter Steinhart at the start of the current millennium and has grown rapidly to become one of the largest microbrands today. Though it operates mainly through its website, Steinhart can now count on a network of distributors that span the globe, from Finland and Poland to faraway places like Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea. For better or worse, the company is most famous for its homage watches, which draw heavily from the design of vintage Rolexes.
The Ocean collection of dive watches that pay homage to Rolex’s Submariners is arguably the company’s most well-known. And following the rise in interest in "Paul Newman" Daytonas, Steinhart promptly released its strangely named Ocean One Vintage Chronograph – a "Paul Newman" homage that’s powered by an ETA-2824 with a Dubois Dépraz chronograph module. Today, the company is making attempts to forge new grounds by introducing original designs with models like the Triton, Apollon, and Lemans GT.
Founded in 1927, the name Stowa is a reversed portmanteau of the names of its founder, Walter Storza. Today, the company is run by Jörg Schauer, a watchmaker who acquired the brand in 1996 from Werner Storza, Walter’s son. The brand was most prolific in the late 1930s and '40s. During that period, the brand produced its first Bauhaus-style watches, and it was later contracted to produce pilots' watches for the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) to be used in the Second World War.
The modern Stowa operates almost exclusively online and it is most famous for its Flieger and Antea collection of watches. The Flieger collection houses modern interpretations of the classic Beobachtungsuhr as well as versions that are more faithful to the original. The Antea collection, on the other hand, continues Stowa’s history of making Bauhaus-style watches with designs that pay homage to the past, but with modern twists.
Damasko was founded in 1994 by Konrad Damasko, who realized that the high-performance materials he developed for aerospace applications would be ideal for highly durable watches. In fact, up until 2002, Damasko was a supplier of hardened watch cases to Sinn. Today, Damasko continues the tradition of making tough watches. For example, its dive watches are made out of submarine steel and are bead-blasted and surface hardened to give them an enhanced Vickers rating that exceeds typical 316L stainless steel watches.
Like most young watch brands, Damasko is focused on developing its own movements. It has even developed its own silicon balance spring, called the EPS spiral, and silicon escape wheel. But as competent as Damasko’s in-house movements are, the brand's most well-known models are arguably the DA38 series of flieger-inspired watches, which are powered by ETA movements or their equivalents. These feature the brand’s signature hardened cases and dials that are inspired by fliegers of old.
Junghans got its start in 1861, founded by Erhard Junghans. In the company’s earliest years, it was focused on producing clocks. In 1903, with an annual production of more than three million clocks, it was the largest clock manufacturer in the world. It was only in the 1930s ― some 70 years after its founding ― that Junghans made its first watch.
The modern Junghans is known for its association with Swiss designer Max Bill. A disciple of the Bauhaus style, Bill designed clocks and watches for Junghans that became horological icons. Today, Junghans still produces watches inspired by Max Bill’s original designs in its Max Bill collection. These are classically-styled watches that adhere to the mantra of "form follows function" and have proven to be resolutely timeless.
Mühle Glashütte, founded by Robert Mühle in 1869 in the state of Saxony, holds the distinction of being the oldest family-owned watchmaking company in Germany while also being, in practice, one of the youngest, having not produced a wristwatch until 1996. The company originally made time measuring instruments for the German Watchmaking School and afterward, with the onset of the World Wars, made speedometers for motorcycles, dashboard counters for automobiles, and onboard timers for military planes, among a host of other timing devices. At the end of World War II, and the postwar partitioning of Germany, while nearly every other German firm that made watches and clocks consolidated into a single state-owned entity, Mühle continued under family ownership, and a different corporate name, branching out its manufacturing expertise into the fields of camera equipment and temperature and pressure gauges.
In 1994, after East and West Germany finally reunited and historic watchmakers like A. Lange & Söhne began re-emerging under private ownership, Mühle Glashütte as we know it today was formed under the leadership of family scion Hans-Jürgen Mühle and his son Thilo. Kicking off the modern collection was the timepiece the duo produced at the request of the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service, the S.A.R. Rescue Timer, which is still in use by the service to this day, and the other military piece that followed it, the S.A.R. Flieger Chronograph used by rescue pilots. The Muhle line has expanded from its military origins to encompass both sporty and luxurious models, and the company, now under the sole leadership of Thilo Muhle, has even dabbled in making its own in-house movements and modules. Best of all, the firm offers its products at very competitive prices compared to many of its neighbors in the watchmaking town of Glashütte.
Independent watchmaker Stefan Kudoke (pronounced koo DOH kah), received his master craftsman in watchmaking certificate with honors at age 22 and honed his skills working for German and Swiss maisons including Glashütte Original, Breguet, Blancpain, and Omega. Since 2008, Kudoke has been making his own watches in his native Germany, several of which have earned awards in the prestigious Geneva Grand Prix (GPHG). His stock-in-trade is skeletonizing and engraving existing movements to make them something unique and putting them on display in uniquely eye-catching timepieces, for which he makes his own dials and hands.
Kudoke’s standout pieces include the Kudoke Oktopus Tourbillon, a collaboration with Austrian watchmaker Richard Habring. In which the openworked movement bridges, plates, and even the hands have been reworked to resemble the tentacles of an octopus. More recently, Kudoke introduced the Grüner Wald Sonderedition (“Green Forest Special Edition,” in English), a variation on his Kudoke 2 model with a textured dark green dial and, more notably, the first in-house Kudoke movement.
Tutima was formed in 1927 by Dr Ernst Kurtz through the merger of two companies: Uhren-Rohwerke-Fabrik Glashütte AG and Uhrekfabrik Glashütte AG. Like other brands based in Glashütte, Tutima was affected by World War II. Dr Kurtz quickly moved west before the war was over and set up a small watch factory in Ganderkesee, near Bremen. It was there that Kurtz became a mentor to one Dieter Delecate, who revived the Tutima name and moved back to Glashütte.
To commemorate the move back to Glashütte, the company created the Tutima Glashütte Hommage Minute Repeater ― the first full minute repeater ever made in Glashütte, and also the first wrist minute repeater in German watchmaking history. With interest in Glashütte watchmaking at an all-time high, the company released its Patria watches in 2019. The Patria is a classic-looking watch with a hand-wound in-house movement executed with a traditional Glashütte three-quarter plate, gold chatons, and screwed balance wheel. Tutima is most renowned for its pilot-style chronographs that were worn by NATO aviators in the 1980s.
Sinn was founded in 1961 by Helmut Sinn as Helmut Sinn Spezialuhren. This makes it a relatively old name in German watchmaking. Unlike most of its German counterparts, Sinn was founded in Frankfurt and still operates there today. The history of the modern company really began in 1994, when it was acquired by Lothar Schmidt, an engineer who promptly renamed the company Sinn Spezialuhren. Thereafter, the company was focused on developing technologies for making sturdy tool watches.
Sinn’s most recognizable model has to be the U1 dive watch. Unlike most other dive watches, which are made of stainless steel, the U1 is unique in that it’s made out of German Submarine Steel. Additionally, the bezel has been treated with Sinn’s Tegiment technology, which increases the hardness level even further. Dive watches aside, Sinn also has watches designed for financial professionals like the 6096 Frankfurt World Time Watch that tracks time in three time zones; after all, Sinn is based in one of the major financial centers of Europe.
MeisterSinger was founded in 2001 by Manfred Brassler. Interestingly, MeisterSinger was Brassler’s second watch brand, both with the goal of making watches that were “unmatched in simplicity and clarity.” This resulted in MeisterSinger watches having only one hand. The concept might seem unfathomable, but the truth is that the earliest clocks only had one hand.
The No. 01 is surely MeisterSinger’s most famous model. It’s a time-only watch with just one hand and large Arabic markers around the clean dial. It seems unusual at first, but its clever design means you do get the hang of reading it after a while. Recently, the brand has been introducing more complicated watches to its collection. This includes models like the Lunascope, which has a moon-phase indicator, and the Astroscope, which tells the day and date. MeisterSinger has also embarked on creating in-house movements. In 2014, it debuted the MSH01, a hand-wound movement with an impressive 120-hour power reserve.
Lang & Heyne was founded in 2001 by Marco Lang and Mirko Heyne in Dresden, which is less than 20 miles north of Glashütte. Like Moritz Grossman just below, Lang & Heyne is one of Germany’s most exclusive watch brands, with annual production said to be only around 50 pieces. The company prides itself on ultra-traditional watchmaking, so everything is made by hand and in time-honored techniques. Apart from the usual three-quarter plate and hand-engraved balance cocks, Lang & Heyne goes further, with screws that are beveled, with domed threads and tin-polished heads. Wheels are made of solid gold and chamfered to reduce friction.
The brand’s most well-known watch is arguably also it’s most unconventional. It’s called the Georg and, rectangular case aside, its claim to fame is really its movement. Dubbed the Caliber VII, it has none of the traditional elements of German-made movements like the three-quarter plate and hand-engraved balance cock. Instead, the Caliber VII is a series of immaculately finished bridges and wheels that terminates in a large, screwed balance wheel held by a large balance bridge.
Moritz Grossmann as a brand was founded in 2008 by Christine Hutter, and presented its first watch in 2010 ― just 10 years ago. The history of the name, however, goes back much further. Moritz Grossmann was born in Dresden in 1826 and, alongside Ferdinand Adolph Lange, was one of the pioneers of the watchmaking industry in Glashütte.
The brand is one of the most exclusive watchmakers in Glashütte. Because of its steadfast pursuit of the concept of “manu factum” ― meaning everything made by hand ― Moritz Grossmann’s annual production is measured in hundreds and not thousands, unlike crosstown rivals like A. Lange & Söhne. The brand’s most famous model is the Benu, a classically designed watch made to exacting standards. Like most high-end watches made in Glashütte, Moritz Grossman’s watches feature traditional elements like three-quarter plates, Glashütte ribbing, and hand-engraved balance cocks.
Hamburg-based Wempe, primarily one of the world’s top watch retailers but also a manufacturer of timepieces branded under its own name, was founded in 1878 by Gerhard Diedrich “Golden Gerd” Wempe. Like so many other German companies, the family-owned firm was conscripted into service during World War II as a producer of military equipment — specifically large wrist timekeepers for pilots during World War II. By the war’s end in 1945, however, Hamburg was in ruins and Wempe, like so many of its brethren, was forced to rebuild.
Fortunately, the next two generations of the Wempe family would lead the firm to lasting success. In 2005, Wempe bought the derelict Glashütte Observatory, transforming it into its own watchmaking center. One year later came the Chronometerwerke line, which used movements made and chronometer-tested at the facility. The line continues as a mainstay of Wempe’s watch collection, particularly the Chronometerwerke Automatic Aviator Watch, a retro-designed pilots’ watch based on those produced during the wartime era. More recently, Wempe introduced its sport-luxury Ironwalker family, which takes its name and some visual cues from the nickname for the construction workers that built New York’s skyscrapers in the early 20th century — like the one that today houses Wempe’s midtown Manhattan showroom.
The name of the founder is Russian but the watches proudly sport “Made in Germany” on their dials. Moscow-born independent watchmaker Alexander Shorokhoff founded his eponymous watch brand in Bavaria in 2003, focusing on offbeat, avant-garde, and usually highly limited timepieces that take inspiration from Russian authors and painters: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Peter Tchaikovsky, and Wassily Kandinsky are among the historical luminaries who have provided inspiration for Shorokhoff’s distinctively creative timepieces.
Some of them, like 2019’s “Levels,” merge the artistic aesthetic with bold horological experimentation. Its multi-level dial, which displays home time and local time on different planes, achieves its 3D dual time zone displays with the use of two separate self-winding ETA 2671 movements, one for each time zone. Occasionally, Shorokhoff pays tribute to artistic pioneers outside his native land, as with Los Craneos, another dual-time watch, this one displaying the times on two Frida Kahlo-style skulls, the spark for which came from Shorokhoff’s trip to Mexico.
Founded in 1882, Hanhart is based in Schwenningen, Germany’s traditional center of clockmaking. The company originally specialized in making hand-held stopwatches for track-and-field runners and other athletes, but as the specter of war loomed over the country in the 1930s, the family firm’s second-generation leader, Wilhelm “Willy” Hanhart, took it into the more lucrative and field of making chronograph wristwatches for military pilots. Among Hanhart’s most storied watches from that era were the monopusher Calibre 40 models, launched in 1938, and a series of two-pusher chronographs the following year, such as the Calibre 41 and the Tachy Tele (named for its dial’s tachymeter and telemeter scales).
The latter two timepieces introduced several new and practical elements for pilots that remain brand hallmarks to this day: a bright red return-to-zero pusher that would be less likely to be inadvertently pressed while timing an interval during a flight, and a red marker at 12 o’clock on the rotatable bezel, which enabled the wearer to record times longer than the 30 minutes indicated on the chronograph counter. These red details live on in today’s flagship Pioneer collection, which takes the design of those of vintage models into the modern era — most faithfully with The Pioneer MKII, which traces its look all the way back to those 1939 models, right down to the retro coin-edge bezels and the riveted, contrast-stitched calfskin strap.
Germany’s Leica, one of the world’s most respected camera makers in the world, entered the crowded field of watchmaking in 2018 and it did so with the same devotion to technical and design excellence that it has brought to the field of photography since 1986. Its first two Leica timepieces — the three-hand L1 and GMT-equipped L2 — were designed in collaboration with renowned German product designer Achim Heine, a longtime collaborator on Leica products.
Among the subtle but recognizable Leica camera elements on both models are the fluting of the crown and the curved shape of the crystal in the style of a camera lens and the ruby set on the crown, which stands in for the famous red dot of the Leica logo. The camera-shutter-button-inspired crown is designed to stop the movement by being pushed in rather than pulled out. Perhaps most notably, Leica actually makes the watches in Germany rather than licensing their manufacture out to somewhere in Asia or even Switzerland. (Leica has said that the “Made in Germany” designation, like the one on its cameras, was extremely important; the manually wound movements, for example, are made in partnership with Lehmann Präzision GmbH in Germany’s Black Forest.) The collection remains rather small and niche in its appeal but has already gained much acclaim from reviewers.
While Archimede has only been making watches commercially since 2003, the family-owned firm that produces them traces its origins all the way back to 1924, when founder Karl Ickler established his watch case factory in Pforrzheim, Germany, a city known worldwide for its jewelry. What that means in practice is that Archimede is one of the few watch companies that can claim that all its cases are designed, prototyped, constructed and finished entirely in house.
These Ickler cases, which are all machined from a single block of stainless steel, are found across the entire Archimede range (they’re also provided, mostly anonymously, to other German watchmakers), which offers divers’ models in the SportTeuscher collection, modern versions of naval officers’ watches in the DeckWatch family, classically elegant gents’ pieces called Klassik, and perhaps most prominently the Pilot collection, which takes cues from the styling of aviators’ watches made in Germany during the 1930s and ‘40s, with inverted triangles at 12 o’clock, bulky grooved crowns, and riveted leather straps.
Circula, a name referring to the circular shape of mechanical watch movements and their gears and wheels, traces its history all the way back to 1926, when the founding Huber family opened a watch and jewelry wholesale business in Pforzheim, one of Germany’s traditional horological centers. The brand as we know it today, which is currently run by Cornelius Huber, grandson of the founder, came into being in 1955. Then as now, Circula has specialized chiefly in purpose-built tool watches, like the DiveSport and AquaSport for divers, the AquaSport GMT for active travelers, and the ProTrail, a robust field watch with a sturdy, scratch-resistant antimagnetic case; Swiss-made automatic movements, chiefly from Sellita, can be found in the cases of all of these watches. Circula’s rare combo of family ownership, historical cred, and classical yet contemporary design language earn the company a spot among Germany’s top-tier makers of robust and stylish timekeeping tools for the wrist.
German microbrand Sternglas, founded by web designer Dustin Fontaine in 2016, adheres to a Bauhaus aesthetic and prices its timepieces at an even more accessible level than those of similarly focused brands like Nomos and Junghans, aimed at new and even first-time buyers. The first Sternglas watches were crowdfunded through Kickstarter, and the small, Hamburg-based brand has expanded its selection in the years since, today offering its minimalist-designed timepieces with three different movement options — Swiss quartz from Ronda, Japanese automatic from Miyota, and, in chronograph-equipped models like the Tachymeter 2.0 and Hamburg Chronographs, mecha-quartz calibers from Japan’s Seiko. The signature collections offering the most diversity of options are the Naos, with very thin bezels, stick hands, and simple hour and minute tracks on the dials, with light hashmarks and just a smattering of numerals; and the Hamburg, with pencil hands and two concentric scales (60-minute and 12-hour) on the outer edge of the dials.
The roots of Dornblüth & Sohn reach back to 1959, when a watchmaker and repairer named Dieter Dornblüth sketched out an idea for a new pocketwatch movement inspired by the many vintage pieces he’d worked on. Based in the village of Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt, Dieter never got the chance to make the movement a reality, as he took over the reins of another local watchmaker shortly thereafter. However, his grandson Dirk Dornblüth, who carried on the family’s watchmaking tradition, took up the challenge 40 years later, working with his father to produce the base Caliber 99.2 — notable for its cleverly designed, differential-driven “Up/Down” power reserve indicator — that today underpins many of the timepieces made by the modern company Dornblüth & Sohn. The firm still makes only a few finished watches per month at its atelier in the Saxon town of Kalbe, from simple three-handed and small-seconds models, to various interpretations of the power-reserve display and date, to regulator-style designs including a regulator with “Weltzeit” (world time) indications.
The initials would seem to indicate some kind of government agency or industrial conglomerate, but they actually stand for “Uhren Technik Spinner” — with “Uhren Technik” meaning “Watch Technology” and “Spinner” referring to the founder and still guiding force of the brand, Nicholaus Spinner. In 1998, Munich-based Spinner, a mechanical engineer who makes CNC machines for watchmaking firms as well as car manufacturers and defense contractors, decided to make a watch for himself in his workshop as a hobby. Posting his progress online, Spinner eventually caught the attention of an entrepreneurial American technophile, Stephen Newman, who would become his partner in the founding of UTS as a brand.
Unlike many other firms on this list, which strive for diversity of styles in their collections, UTS makes tough dive watches almost exclusively, with the only major difference between them being how tough they are. UTS watches, all of which have cases CNC-manufactured fully in-house, from single blocks of German steel, by Spinner at his Munich workshop, range in water-resistance from 1,000 meters all the way up to 3,000 meters, making them some of the most rugged diving companions you’ll find from an independent watch brand.
Long before he established an eponymous watch brand, Jochen Benzinger, a trained jewelry engraver from Pforzheim, had made an industry-wide name for himself as an elite practitioner of the ancient art of guilloché. For years, he applyied his decorative talents on a freelance basis for watch brands including IWC, Glashütte Original, and Chronoswiss (it was Chronoswiss founder and fellow German Gerd-Rüdiger Lang who first approached him about working on a watch dial), as well as clients like Rolls-Royce (for car dashboards) and Fabergé (for its famous eggs).
As you might expect, Jochen Benziger-branded watches are legendary for their intricate guilloché-engraved dials, created with the aid of more than 20 manually operated machines at his Pforzheim atelier. Benzinger has also mastered the horological art of skeletonization, stripping down movements to their essentials with a goldsmith’s saw. More recently, Benzinger achieved another milestone when he partnered with the Austrian watchmaking duo of Richard and Marie Habring to develop his first watch with a proprietary movement, the GAP 1 (with the “GAP” initials appropriately indicating a “German-Austrian Partnership”). Benzinger makes one-of-a-kind, customized watches by special order for customers, in addition to his small stable of distinguished models that run the gamut from classic time-only, to fully skeletonized, to openworked regulator designs.
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Great list of fine timepieces of Germany for the heritage collection as well as the dress watch/art nouveau. For a well-established German diving collection, though, UTS is something to be considered. https://www.utswatches.com/
Guinand is missing as a German watchbrand. After Helmut Sinn sold his company SINN in 1994 he bought closely after that year an originally swiss company and this was Guinand. He manufactured under this name again own watches a bit in the SINN style. Later on he moved the company to Frankfurt in Germany and extended the portfolio and e.g. build the famous WZU-5 watch. He was at that time the oldest young watches businessman and he sold highly aged Guinand and died in 2018, at age of 102.
And Sternglas? …
There’s Union Glashutte too.
I’ve been impressed with Union Glashutte lately. No US retailers though. Care to take them on?
What about Hentschel From Hamburg? https://hentschel-hamburg.com/
What about the company called Tufina Watches. They claim to be made in Germany since 1828. I haven’t bought one because they look sketchy. Do you know anything about them?
Great list and blog, though I think you should add the 3 brands from Jochen Benzinger with Jaeger & Benzinger; Benzinger; and Grieb & Benzinger. The Grieb & Benzinger watches are as beautiful as anything made in Germany, though they cost as much as some people’s homes.
Teddy, you kinda skipped Montblanc and D. Dornblüth & Sohn :)
Would love to see honorable mention or some kind of coverage of Dornblüth & Sohn. Maybe too small but the quality belongs on this list imo.
Hi looking for a 2 sub dial chronograph for not very much money but not found one yet
Good day, i,ve just joined,
I,m starting to collect watches basicaly for use (not for selling price), i owe Rolex, Montblancl, Blancpain, etc.
Now i,m starting to buy cheaper units. Have just purchases Seiko skx007k2 Iso 6425 and works incredible, also have purchased (hope receive it tomrw) the Junghans Meister (blt 2019) and i,m doubting to see which unit of bellow i should purchase:
1- Steinhart Ocean GMT, watch is new and blt 2013 – or the
2- Steinhart Triton 30 ATM Diver is new and blt 2015
Which one u recomend me?
are good watches? are reliable?
Kind regards
Alfonso
great collection, but you forgot
TEN ELEVEN NINE
:-)