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After the appearance of the first volume in 2008, the German Watch Museum Glashütte is now presenting further editions in this series. Volumes 2 – 4 have recently become available in the watch museum and expand on the series of books by Prof. Dr. Herbert Dittrich.


Volume 1, entitled “Measuring the Moment”, provides detailed information about the exhibition. This accompanying volume is intended for all those who would like to broaden their knowledge of
the exhibits and to learn more about the development of the former mining town into the centre of
the art of German watchmaking, the founders of the first watch manufactories, as well as
the various ways in which time can be measured.


Volume 2 gives a detailed description of “The Art of Precision” and introduces various
European scientists and renowned watchmakers who, over the course of the centuries, have made it possible to measure time in an ever more precise manner. These include, to name but a few, Johannes Müller, Peter Henlein, Christiaan Huygens, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Philippe Dufour and Henry Sully. Further chapters chart the development of Saxon watchmaking in Dresden and, later, in Glashütte.


Volume 3, entitled “Inventors and Visionaries”, introduces the pioneers of precision watchmaking in Dresden and in Glashütte. Detailed information is given about Johann Gottfried Köhler and
his inventions, as well as about Johann Heinrich Seyffert and his pendulum clocks, travelling pendulum clocks, pocket watches and chronometers. As the successor to Köhler and Seyffert,
Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes and his achievements are given their due recognition. The role played by renowned protagonists, patrons and customers in the development of chronometry in Dresden, such as Moritz Graf von Brühl, Franz Xaver Freiherr von Zach, and Alexander von Humboldt, is also described on the basis of various examples.


Volume 4, entitled “The Beginning of a Tradition”, describes the first 50 years – from 1845 to 1895 – of the manufacture of precision watches in Glashütte. This volume focuses on the theoretical basis of precision watch production in Glashütte, the Glashütte supply system, as well as
the development of a Glashütte calibre. Subsequent chapters deal with the first products to come from the workshops of F.A. Lange and Moritz Grossmann. This volume finishes with an outline of the early development of Glashütte marine chronometers.


Price: 13.50 Euro per book

Price for complete 4-volume set: 50.00 Euro

Publisher: Foundation “German Watch Museum Glashütte – Nicolas G. Hayek”

Published by Sandstein Verlag, Dresden.

Available in the German Watch Museum Glashütte

Volume 1: ISBN No.: 978-3-940319-37-1
Volume 2: ISBN No.: 978-3-940319-39-5
Volume 3: ISBN No.: 978-3-940319-40-1
Volume 4: ISBN No.: 978-3-940319-67-8