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A 1918 Mühle speedometer
from Glashütte
Mühle Glashütte’s new
Teutonia Sport I features a
new tachymeter scale.
iW: HOW HAS MÜHLE GLASHÜTTE BEEN CELEBRATING
ITS 150TH ANNIVERSARY?
Thilo Mühle: We have been celebrating all year. We introduced two new
models at Baselworld and on June 24 we will celebrate with a special exhi-
bition and events at the German Watch Museum in Glashütte, which will last
for six months. There we will introduce a new model in our Robert Mühle
Manufacturing line that uses our own movement. We are also celebrating
with our employees.
Also, on each new model introduced in 2019 we have placed a special
rotor with a 150th anniversary plate that also recognizes our twenty-fifth
year as a watchmaker. The models with the rotor include the Teutonia Sport
I, the Sea-Timer BlackMotion, the Panova Green and the Teutonia IV Moon-
phase watches. The décor is actually on an aluminum plate on top of the
rotor. (The middle segment of the anniversary rotor also features a special
semicircular ring made of heavy metal, which is connected to the outer edge
of the middle segment by four or five gold-colored rivets, depending on
the movement.)
WHAT ARE THE PRIMARY CHARACTERISTICS OF
EVERY MÜHLE GLASHÜTTE WATCH?
Mühle Glashütte developed and
patented its woodpecker neck
regulation in 2003
In 2008, Mühle Glashütte developed its
own three-quarter plate, which is also
fitted with the classic Glashütte click
and a removable escape wheel bridge
Form follows function. We produced measuring instruments for the watch
industry in the 19th-century. These were instruments that allowed measure-
ments to 1/1000 of a meter. In the 1920s we made speedometers and car
clocks for Audi. In fact, at the Audi museum you will find automotive clocks
made by my grandfather. This is real history, not marketing.
For me, a watch is also an instrument. My father created the slogan “the first
thing you should see on a watch is the time.” We keep this true on all of our
watches. The second function on the watch is always in the second position.
Also, we have developed our own woodpecker neck regulation, a shock
resistance technology. With this, our watches can be used for any activity. To
use the name of Glashütte you have to produce more than 50% of the move-
ment by yourself. That means we do not use standard movements, so we
have developed special plates and modules, special rotors. People get in a
lot of watch for their money.
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