On June 25, 2026, we opened our new special exhibition “Grossmann200”. It is dedicated to one of the founding fathers of the Glashütte watch industry. It focuses on Moritz Grossmann as a person in more detail than ever before and shows that he was much more than a gifted watchmaker. How great his reputation still was three decades after his death is shown by the fact that a monument was to be erected to him in the heart of the watchmaking town. The designs from that time will be shown to the public for the first time in the new exhibition.
200 years ago, on March 27, 1826, Moritz Grossmann was born in Dresden. He had a lasting influence on German watchmaking and established its international reputation. He was much more than an outstanding watchmaker. He was a successful manufacturer, an accomplished technician, a brilliant inventor and a passionate teacher. Moritz Grossmann also left his mark as an author and theorist. Throughout his life, he was also heavily involved in Glashütte at the municipal level, be it as a town councillor, as a founding member of the volunteer fire brigade or as the initiator of numerous associations.
Grossmann’s merits remained unforgotten, so that three decades after his death, a monument was to be erected to him in the watchmaking town. However, the project was not realized. A total of ten drafts from that time have been preserved and have been slumbering in the archive until now. With the current special exhibition, they are now being presented to the public for the first time. It will be interesting to see where in Glashütte the monument should have stood and what it could have looked like. However, with the founding of the German School of Watchmaking Glashütte in 1878, Moritz Grossmann set himself a monument during his lifetime.
The exhibition has been open since June 26, 2026 to everyone during the regular opening hours of the Watch Museum.
Impressions from the exhibition and the opening:
(Photos: Holm Helis)
