German Watches

German Watches are also another great gift idea. If you wish to buy a German wrist watch my advice for you is to consider the following informations.

We help you here to understand the most important facts about German tiemepieces (e.g. brands, history, movements, models prices, etc).

Why the German and not the Swiss ones?

We are big fans of german wrist watches. Read here for which reasons we love them:

1 ~ Limited Production Quantity
2 ~ Watchmakers own their Brands
3 ~ Reasonable Pricing
4 ~ Partly Use of Discontinued/Rare Calibres
5 ~ Harmonious Dials
6 ~ Swan-Neck adjustments
7 ~ Innovative Time Display

Popularity of german wrist watches fast growing

In the last years we experienced that the demand of German watches is fast growing and even overtaking their Swiss rivals. And this is happening despite the lack of publicity and government support and despite the fact of smaller production quantity.

Talented perfectionists and engineers

The history of the watchmaking industry in germany can be dated back to 1840. German watch manufacturers were and are regarded as talented engineers and perfectionists but the most of them didn't/don't have the financial power to market their products. They were often underestimated by the watch experts. But the situation changed when they showed their watches at the Basel exhibition.

We are happy that German watches like A. Lange & S�hne, Glash�tte Original, Junghans, Martin Braun and Chronoswiss have meanwhile penetrated the worldwide watch segment with their innovative and attractive timepieces and successful marketing.

What price should you invest?

You have to take into account many factors like quality, demand, supply, movement, services, production costs, marketing cost, branding and many more. Before your buying decision, it could be an advantage if you know:

- the production volume per year
- types of calibre/movement used (ETA, Valjoux, Unitas, STT, Ronda etc.)
- types of components/part sused (stainless steel, saphire crystal etc)
- source of the parts (Germany, Japan, China, Swiss etc).

Rough Price Orientation

For a decent automatic watch with ETA 2824-2/2834/2896 movement the minimum price is USD 300/-. A manual winding Unitas-based watch is USD400/-. A chronograph with Valjoux 7750/7751 movement is USD700/-;

German watches with good investment potential

Due to their rarity there are several German watches and german pocket watches which offer great investment potential. These types of watches have usually the name of their creaters imprinted. For example, those mainly created by AHCI members like Frank Muller, F. Journes, Vincent Calabrese, Svend Anderson, Rainer Nienaber and other.

Stylish high level watches: Sothis, Schauer and Temption

Sothis, Schauer and Temption aim to transfer the value of the watch into the timepiece itself. The percentage of marketing costs is moderate. Their main goal is to achieve breath taking, eye catching watches with a unique and special look. They combined quality, design and functionality and build watches, which have a long lasting value on their own:

� watches with an unmatched look alike and style
� watches which have and even exceed international standards
� watches which are original and unique
� watches which contain everything technically feasible
(waterproofness, sapphires, material)
� watches which stand in detail for the label "Made in Germany" .

Maybe you can make a bargain at ebay?

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