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Glashütte Original is a German producer of luxury watches founded in 1994 by the privatization of VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe (GUB), [1] an East German conglomerate formed in 1951 from the watch companies based in Glashütte. Glashütte Original uses its own movements, and has 10 proprietary movement innovations.
The motion work is the small 12-to-1 reduction gear train that turns the timepiece's hour hand from the minute hand. [6] [7] It is attached to the going train by the friction coupling of the cannon pinion, so the minute and hour hands can be turned to set the time. It is often located on the outside of the movement's front plate, just under the ...
Tutima "Fliegerchronograph", the official NATO pilot watch Tutima Glashütte Fliegerchronograph, which was produced during WWII for the German military, then named the Wehrmacht. Tutima Uhrenfabrik GmbH Ndl. Glashütte is a German watchmaker established in 1927 in Glashütte, Saxony.
The roots of the family business date back five generations - from the year 1869, when Robert Mühle founded his own company in Glashütte, manufacturing precision measuring instruments for the local watch industry and watchmaker school. Mühle-Glashütte S.A. was founded in 1994 by Hans-Jürgen Mühle, father of the current CEO Thilo Mühle.
Georges Louis Ruedin (1870–1935), Swiss watch producer, Berner Jura, director of the Société Horlogère Reconvilier. Jens Olsen (1872–1945), Danish clockmaker, Ribe, astronomical world clock in Copenhagen. Jämes Pellaton (1873–1954), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, tourbillon. Louis Cartier (1875–1942), French watchmaker, Paris, Cartier ...
It is also possible for quartz clocks and watches to have their quartz crystal oscillate at a higher frequency than 32 768 (= 2 15) Hz (high frequency quartz movements [4]) and/or generate digital pulses more than once per second, to drive a stepping motor powered second hand at a higher power of 2 than once every second, [5] but the electric ...
Fob watches were starting to be replaced at the turn of the 20th century. [189] The Swiss, who were neutral throughout World War I, produced wristwatches for both sides of the conflict. The introduction of the tank influenced the design of the Cartier Tank watch, [190] and the design of watches during the 1920s was influenced by the Art Deco ...
The Glashütte watch companies were nationalized in 1948. At the time, Lange was working on a new movement: Caliber 28, a wristwatch format of the caliber 48. It went into production in 1949 as the last movement developed by A. Lange & Söhne. Watches from this period were signed “Lange VEB” (Volkseigener Betrieb - publicly owned enterprise).