Our 1st German Watchmaking Encounter!
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- Опубліковано 18 лип 2018
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Can you imagine that we hadn't yet been to Germany to explore what German watchmaking is all about!!! Well this is now a thing of the past and I'm pretty sure that it will lead to some many more trips and discover more about it.
For the time being, we were very kindly invited by the organisers of the Dubai Watch Week for a 4-day trip and this was a fantastic experience in the Glashütte region of Saxony where we visited no less than Nomos, Moritz Grossmann, Tutima, Wempe, Lang & Heyne and the historic local watchmaking museum.
We also got the chance of encountering a great man, Mr.Gerd-Rüdiger Lang, founder of Chronoswiss, who shared with us his rich professional career and love of watchmaking.
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Marc-André you are in my Hall-of-Fame in the Watch business! Thanks
Now that’s something super nice to read, feel honored by this kind comment, thanks so much! And all the very best to you
Nice to see German watch production. Keep up the good work.
many thanks!
Fantastic report thank you keep up the good quality
Brilliant video! Thank you so much for the ever-amazing content!!
May thanks for this nice comment!!! Best to you
Appreciate your in depth coverage of this event, thank you.
Happy you liked it! Thanks
Dear Marc, Thanks so much. A fantastic, amazing and inspiring video!
Congratulations to the good people of Glashütte! Bravo!
Very glad you enjoyed it, thanks a lot!
Great video and informative content as always! Really interesting to see both some of the big players of German watchmaking and of course the independence like Moritz Grossmann, which for me is the most interesting, amazingly done! :)
That's very nice of you, thanks a lot, very appreciated!
Fascinating video! Keep em coming, Marc! 👍
Very happy you liked it, thanks a lot!
Marc thank you for this very interesting and informative review, and also to the folks at the Dubai Watch Week.
That’s right and thanks for this kind comment. All the very best to you
As always a fantastic report, as always like no other!
Goes straight to my heart, thanks so much and have a great day!
These factory visits are superb, thank you SO much
You are very welcome and we love doing them, thanks!
Marc, once again you nailed it..., what a great review of the smaller saxonian watch players..., i had the chance to visit Lang & Heyne and fell in love with their work...
I totally understand why you liked it!!! And many thanks for this very nice comment, very appreciated and all the best to you
Wonderful video as always !
I found the pictures in the plants especially interesting.
It is pretty nutty the amount of finishing and corresponding expense such as polishing screws.
Reminds me of the Lancia Appia's very beautiful and expensive to manufacture "jacks" in case of flat tires.
I think you summarized it beautifully that watchmaking was "Essential Art".
Another great interesting video,they always pass by so quickly. Have always felt there is a lot of great watch brands coming out of Germany that somehow slightly go unnoticed. Love this channel
Thanks a lot and there are many more then the ones we briefly covered in this report. Really hope being able to do this in future. Best to you
Beautiful watches. Great update. Thanks again.
Many thanks for the comment!
Excellent video! I love nearly all of the German brands from that area.
Many thanks, happy you liked it!
Great content and very good presentation. Thanks from Germany.
You are very welcome, thanks!
Another great presentation Mads, good to see WEMPE training people .The last time I spoke to the watch maker I use here in Sydney , he had been to a local watch and clock makers function , he told me he was one of the youngest there and he is near retirement age....I think that your chanell helps to promote the craft and appreciation and well as the business side . Hopefully also inspire some future craftsmen...
Thanks for this short little trip to Glashütte! Glad to see more German watchmaking on the channel =) All the best from Germany
Haha and more will be coming 😉 thanks!
Thank you for this fantastic video
You are so very welcome and thanks a lot for this nice comment!
Can't wait for the 2nd episode.
Its about time. German and Japanese watches are at par or better than their Swiss counterpart.
Understand your point and yes we would love to expand our coverage!!! All the best to you
Another fascinating video looking at brands that don’t normally get attention. Thanks !
You're very welcome and thanks for the kind comment! Best to you
really awesome!
Very happy you liked it!
Thanks for this interesting video
You are very welcome, was an immense pleasure to do!!
Excellent stuff
Thanks a lot, happy you enjoyed it!
Thank you for sharing brother's.
Our pleasure!
Thanks a lot Marc Andre & team for bringing this video on German watchmaking. I hope to see Dutch, French, British & Japanese watchmaking videos in the future.
We really hope to make it happen too!!! Thanks for the comment
Favorite watch channel!
Very nice to read this, thanks so much!
Top video !
Thanks a lot, makes us happy!
Great video. More on German watchmaking and key German wacth makers in history and today, please.
Thanks and something nice coming up next week 😉👍
Great Video! :)
Many thanks!!
Grosse Klasse, MAD. As usual. Now there’s the Black Forest left to discover as the second historical region of German watchmaking (all new museum at Junghans)...
You're totally right and I really hope to get there too in the future (on top of it they have good wines and good food!!!). Thanks for the comment
My ultimate grail watch will be from Germany...... Awesome video Marc!
Happy you enjoyed it, thanks a lot!
Thanks!
Very welcome
This is just so awesome! I would like to get timepieces from Nomos and A. Lange & Söhne in the future. Thanks for the video!
Fully understand your choices!!! I really hope you will be able to transform this into reality
TheWATCHES.tv Thank you very much! Nomos is definitely within reach. Lange, not yet. Hehe.
Wempe is the one along with A Lange
Not a fan of NOMOS
What an interesting report! Now I want to go to Glashütte for a little vacation and buy something nice. ;-)
Sounds like a nice plan ;)
I love Germany but please read up on this place. It is full of neon Nazies . The nomos watch company is part of this .
Outstanding video. This gives me the idea to go there next Spring when we go to see our first grand child from our oldest daughter. Warum nicht?
Warum nicht, that would be a great thing to do!! Best to you
I personally visited this area a couple of months ago to visit the watch museum even though i trend to book some factory tours, because it was just myself they would not let me in , however we took a look around the shops in the town and saw most of the watch brands made here.
Glad you still enjoyed it, it’s really a nice and cute place!
ahh ze german watches! , great production , you should have your own tv show , enjoyed thoroughly.
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Congratulations Marc ,really cool video, I personally was eager to know and see more about these brands on site. Do you think in the next watch trip could be possible to include Saxony as an alternative or complementary site to visit? just a wild thought.
That thought totally crossed my mind ;) And yes it would be a great idea!! Thanks for the comment and best to you
Great trip Marc more of the same please.
Would love to do more of these!!! Thanks
I enjoy this video, all I can help is give it a thumbs up and hope other sees as well.
Very appreciated, thanks a lot!!
Great!
Many thanks!
What a trip!
Oh yes, intense but wonderful!!!!
Such a beautiful city. Looks straight out of a fairy tale.
There's a bit of that, very true!
So jealous!
Watchtripping: Glashütte Edition? 😉
The seed has been planted... would for sure love to do this!!
Polishing the threads of small screws ! Now that & more the Swiss will need to see, listen n practise bcos they need to make not only for buyers but for watchmakers of the future to appreciate it even after many decades, that full detailing in manufacturing of a top quality watch is key to a higher horology level & standards..... Way to go for all that started it first 👍👍👍👍👍😉
Very true!
TheWATCHES.tv , Tq tq & tq 🤗
10 years ago I was the first time in Glashütte and it really has blown my mind. This year I visited it again an was even more impressed. Its incredible how this little town has developed since the reunification. I also visited many of the watch factorys. My favorites were Moritz Grossmann and the Museum. Since many years I really like the watches from that town, owned a Nomos, Mühle, and an A. Lange & Söhne pocket watch, wich I completely restored, but sadly it was stolen :-(. This year I made a new Case for a very beautiful Lange pocket watch movement and today I repaired a Lange pocket watch from the 20s. It was in a very bad condition an I had to make a new Barrel and a new Malteserstellung, but its a joy to work on this type of watches even when they are in such a sad condition. Keep going strong Glashütte! Greetings from the austrian Horologenland.
Great story, thanks for sharing it with us and love what you are doing, fantastic!
Great video! But Muhle Glashutte is a fantastic brand!
Good job!
Very nice video
(From)Tariq Time Service
Many thanks for this nice comment!
Wish the video never ended.
7:06 this model is a beauty!!
I like the German watch industry.
Fully understand!
Why they only make manual winding watches ? In this entire video I only saw one automatic watch , is automatic watches are that complex ? , or they have any patent issues ?
JUNGHANS is also fantastic brand from Germany.
Very true, love the design!
12:33 wow that's a good Movado watch. Movavo watches made and sold today are totally crap! 12:35 the Heuer is great as well.
Yes, true!
I expect nothing less from the German's!
Best, IC
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I have often wondered how do watch makers keep their place clean. The process shown at 10:01 won't it create a very fine metallic dust? what happens to all the substance which comes out of grinding that metal against that machine. Or perhaps she is just polishing it. not shaping the metal.
There are various techniques, such as pressure difference that help or kind of static stands, but this remain an issue regardless, these are not white rooms like in the computer industry and glad it's not!
Mr. M.A.D., have you ever seen these watchmakers drop a small part like a 1mm screw? I wonder if they have a procedure for hunting for a dropped watch part on the floor. Although they are skilled professionals, dropping tiny parts must happen! Do they excitedly say, *HEY, Do not walk here, I must find my screw!*
Marc, if ChronoSwiss was one of your subjects what about Sinn or Hanhart? Thanks, love the video.
Really like Sinn, but this was more like a general overview!! Thanks a lot
This video makes me want to spend money on watches :-)
Nice!!!! Enjoy it
8:48 what's that beauty.
it is just a matter of time American watches (mechanical) will re-dominate the world. There is a huge start up scene in Pennsylvania now.
You guys are too swiss not covering german watchmaking even when u did it was very short!
A good overview, but we definitely want to go more in details and we will!!! Best to you
Good idea! imagine u guys covering Seiko! unbelievable lol
Oh that’s so much on our menu, really really hope to make it happen 🙏
It's nice they are covering it at all. But you are right, the swiss tend to ignore the better watchmakers around the world.
that was not communism, that was socialism :D
Grettings from fan from Poland
Get your point ;)
i always tell people to buy german or japanese when it comes to anything made of steel. Sinn, Damasko, Muhle, Braun, Nomos etc are the leaders of form and function. i get so many compliments on my Sinn U1-SDR its crazy.
swiss watches are very overrated, overpriced.
Get your point (unfortunately...), but there are some fantastic german brands with great and reasonably priced products. Best to you