Hi folks, I went through the press material from the Las Vegas Jewelry Show this morning and found images of the new Mühle Glashütte watches. This 146-year-old company remains in the hands of its founding family (despite 40 years being nationalized by the East German government). When the wall fell
Hi folks,
I went through the press material from the Las Vegas Jewelry Show this morning and found images of the new Mühle Glashütte watches. This 146-year-old company remains in the hands of its founding family (despite 40 years being nationalized by the East German government). When the wall fell in 1989, the company was reinitialized and again began building clocks, and then in 1992 its first watches. Today it builds marine clocks and three main lines of wristwatches.
Disclaimer: I have owned one two (now gone) and currently have a marine chronometer. Here's the SAR watch I purchased about 12 years ago.
here's the other watch I just remembered that I owned
and here's my marine chronometer.
To give you a sense of the company's scale, they have about 50 employees, 370 dealers and build about 1000 watches a year. Since we seldom see this brand here, I thought it would be worth posting some nice clean images.
Starting with their top-of-the-line, we have the Robert Mühle Zeigerdatum (hand date), released on the 175th anniversary of the birth of the founder of the company. This has extra meaning to the current management, as it's their forefather they are celebrating, not a "historic brand" that was purchased by a marketing conglomerate and is being revived.
The RMK 03 hand-wound movement was designed and built in-house. The subdials display power reserve, small seconds, and date. It's composed of 180 components, 33 jewels, and has gold chatons and an engraved balance cock. Production is limited to 100 units.
Robert Mühle Zeigerdatum (hand date) 44mm x 12.5mm
Movement RMK 3 36.6mm and 21,600 (3 Hz) with 56 hours reserve
Here's the previous Robert Mühle non-date, also powered by the RMK 03 movement, and limited to 100 units.
The family has decided that a sportier look should help expand their appeal to today's watch buyers. The 2016 line has some new models, which appear below:
The Hand Date / Zeigerdatum 42mm x 12mm
SW 221-1 automatic movement
ProMare Chrono 44mm x 15.4mm MU9408 automatic movement, ceramic insert in the bezel, carbon dial
ProMare Date 44mm x 12mm SW400 automatic movement
Promare Lady 39mm x 10mm SW 200 automatic movement, glass or diamond indices on mother of pearl dial
Finally, we conclude with a quick viewing of their other marine watches - most of which could be called Tool Watches.
The Search and Rescue SAR Marine
The Search and Rescue SAR Chrono
Like many companies, they have found a niche and in this case, it's the $2,000-5,000 price range.
They focus on serious watches that can do the serious job of providing the time in any conditions of lighting or weather.
Thanks for reading about this German watch producer.
Cazalea
This message has been edited by cazalea on 2016-06-07 11:10:36 
