The origins of Dornblüth watches go back several decades, and start with a dream born of a special kinship with a pocket watch. In 1959, Dieter Dornblüth became rather attached to a sterling silver pocket watch that he'd been repairing.
So attached, in fact, that when its owner picked it up, he decided to
design a watch movement based on that of the pocket watch.
The design had just been finished, the movement itself barely started,
when fate took a turn and he ended up in Kalbe, Saxony-Anhalt, to take
over an abandoned watchmaker business, and the movement disappeared into
the mists of time (no pun intended).
It wasn't until his 60th birthday in 1999, when his son Dirk presented
him with a self-made watch that the dream of 1959 was revived, and thus,
Dornblüth & Sohn was born.
Recently, Dirk Dornblüth kindly found the time to answer a few questions.
1.
D. Dornblüth & Sohn have been making watches since 1999. It is
still very much a family business, with a limited number of watches made
per year. How many are you now producing annually, and are you planning to increase these numbers?
The only change we have made during this time is the location. We are still a family business and will soon have 6 employees. Our
oldest colleague Roswitha will retire in about 2 years, so we have been
very lucky to find a young watchmaker to take over her tasks. He will start within the next weeks and learn from her until Roswitha leaves our team. The annual production has not increased, it is still 120 pieces. Output is limited by the traditional way of watchmaking which we utilise in our Manufacture every day.
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