Uhrwerke – Eine Leidenschaft
Courvoisier? No, this is not about the cognac of the same name, but about a Swiss family of watchmakers that can claim more than 200 years of watchmaking history and yet is hardly known. Don’t worry, we won’t work through the whole family tree here, but focus on a few family members.
Around mid-2022, the first watches with the Japanese Miyota 9075 with a true GMT function appeared on the market. Such a movement had been expected for some time, but Miyota had not made a press fuss about it in advance.
After 100 articles in a good seven years, it is time today to review the many different articles on the subject of movements. Below I present you the TOP 10, which consists of a mixture of my personal favorites and the most frequently accessed articles by my readers.
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Making phone calls at three-minute intervals. Those born before the year 2000 may still remember: in the past, the length of time for a unit charge in the local or regional area of many countries was three minutes.
Glashütte was famous for its watch industry more than a hundred years ago, producing pocket watches of the highest quality. Ferdinand A. Lange was certainly the most renowned Glashütte manufacturer, but watches by Großmann or Assmann were also sought-after and expensive.
