The watchmaking unique feelings

Departure from the capital Dresden in Saxony, eastern Germany, about an hour's drive will be able to go south to Glashütte. The 19th century, peaked in the luxury watches price making industry, as German watchmaking center, produces precision timing tool - clock, astronomical clock, nautical clock marketing to the world. 

Addition to the small town of only 2500 inhabitants can find Glashutte luxury watches price museum and several Ashkenazi watch today on behalf of the brand's site, head and peaceful, people can not imagine ever as the the tabulation "center" of the rise of prosperous, more can not imagine is here also burned down during World War II. You want to search for traces of history, the museum is undoubtedly the best place to go. Glashutte watches museum alone stands in the town center, this four-storey building is not fancy decoration design, can only see the neat symmetry, but layers of other windows and neat porch. Clock Museum opened on May 22, 2008, it tells of a primitive technology coexist Glashütte town watchmaking history, as well as time-related emotional humanities surface. 

Many watch collectors do not quite understand the German watchmaking industry, it is perhaps because of the publicity density and strength of the German has always been low-key style, brand and technology far less than their neighbors - Switzerland. Perhaps Germany is not the most influential watchmaker, but definitely one of the oldest watchmaker. 1530 the world's first pocket watch - Nuremburg Egg locksmith Peter Henlein of Nuremberg, Germany, manufacturing. As JM Keynes said: "The German Empire is not so much built on iron and blood, as it is built on coal and iron." The rise of the watchmaking industry based on the rich mineral resources. Early in the 16th century, the German watchmaking industry began to flourish, its roots can be traced back to 1506. When the Kingdom of Saxony (Dresden, capital of Saxony) was Elector rule, he was very interested in astronomy, mathematics, physics and other natural sciences, the Saxony rich mineral so that he can gather the financial resources in Dresden Adams Dayton vigorously develop the natural sciences and the watch industry. In 1778, Dresden set up a physical gathering of top science and technology talent, astronomy, mathematics salon, Gutkaes salon watchmaker. The royal palace of the respected watchmaker German watchmaking definitely a far-reaching impact, the mainstay of the German watchmaking Ferdinand Adolph Lange as well as the same become Glashütte watch industry masters the Moritz Grossmann and Adolf Schneider have taught by him. 

Gutekaisi encouraged his disciples to travel around the world, to understand the watchmaking outside Saxony. Beginning in 1837, Lange embarked on a four-year probationary travel the road, visiting Paris, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Lange during travel allow Breguet master subglottic in the Swiss watchmaking industry, the originator of the "education", and the division of the Swiss watchmaking mode and improve the production chain back to Germany, he wrote the famous "travel log "This log is a qualitative change in the German watchmaking history. The log records in the form of a variety of charts, formula the Lange of advanced  handbags information watchmaking skills learned in 1837 to 1841, including the escapement system, the structure of the hammer, the transmission gear train and the length of the measurement tools. Another great length is used to calculate the relationship between the pendulum size and the number of oscillations, or the various sizes of the gear (Cogwheel) the quantity of the various teeth (Teeth) Tooth Pitch (Circular Pitch) combination relation. Lange digital-based concept and come back for the German watchmaking industry, traditional watchmaking skills from the family workshop into the watchmaking factory "made possible.