Dear Chrono24 users, as you know on Chrono24 you can buy new,
pre-owned and vintage watches from dealers from all around the world and in our brand boutique you can
also buy watches directly from manufacturers.
One of them is Moritz Grossmann, one of the premium brands
from Glashütte, the heart of the German watchmaking industry.
I'm very honored and pleased to meet today the CEO and founder of Moritz Grossmann, Christine Hutter.
I'm Christine Hutter
I'm the founder and CEO of Moritz Grossmann.
I came 96 to Glashütte. I worked for 2 other companies here
and I recognized the importance of the name of Moritz Grossmann here in Glashütte, because it was really one of the most famous and important
watchmakers in the 19th century. He was a trained watchmaker from Dresden.
he came in 1854 to Glashütte
and he opened his, own workshop and he produced during this time more pocket watches
pendulum clocks and also measuring instruments.
But Grossman was famous here because what he wanted is to give his knowledge of watchmaking to other people.
He was in 1878 is the founder of the German watchmaking school,
he wrote a lot of books and he also did very much for the social life here in Glashütte.
If you look at our movements we go back and we try to take out the old heritage
of the pocket watches and to transfer it a little bit into the movements of the wrist watches.
We are a real manufactury, because we development the movements in-house, we do the prototyping in-house and
today, we have a standard that we produce 85 to 90 percent of the movements as well in-house.
We really produce anchor, wheels, balance, plate, screws, everything in-house.
and I think the hands they
are long enough and they are so slim, so fine, we really do each single hand by one person.
It's so special polished and at least annealed under fire, and not in a blue hue,
we do it in the brown violet hue,
which is more difficult in production than the blue color.
So, each single part in the movement is hand-finished, is hand engraved and is hand-decorated
The Benut Tourbillon has a few patents inside.
It's a flying three-minute tourbillon with a very big carriage. The carriage has sixteen millimeters.
And it's not so often with the tourbillon, we have a stop second.
And the way how we stop the carriage
is that we made a brush of human hair
and the brush is if you stop it coming out touching very smoothly and softly the balance
and the carriage and the whole movement stops.
The size of the carriage is so big, so we had to put the hours and the seconds a little bit out.
So we made the face here with two indicators, hours and seconds.
And in the time between 25 and 35 you cannot read the minutes.
So, what we made is a second scale between
seconds and hours and we made like a tail on the minute hand and
if the hand is turning around on the tail of the hand you can read during these 10 minutes the time on a second scale.
That's a piece what I would like to show you now. It's the Atum in rose gold.
And somebody asked us if it would be possible to make a special piece.
So the artist is a small child. He made a drawing with a shark on it,
and we took the drawing, and we put it with a gold wire here into the dial.
So I think it's wonderful customizing, also for the next generation.
With the Tefnut Twist we won the Eve's Award in London.
and it was really the first prize for the best innovation of the last year for lady watches
The idea came because from our chairman a friend said it's always a problem
Because if i go out with my wife and I say: "Please, wear one of your special mechanical watches."
The nails has been colored already, they haven't been dry and I have to set the time and wind the watch.
And then we said what can, we do to find an easy mechanism
for winding a watch, especially for women, which is very easy to handle.
And the idea came up and we found now a solution
that now a watch your only twist the strap,
and the strap is connected with the movement
So if you twist it here you have a direct connection to the barrel and you can wind the watch how you like
and very easily and you also can do it with colored nails, which are still not yet dry.
the client today is a watch collector. He has to love a little bit the mechanic part in a movement.
He has to understand that a movement or watch movement
is the most precise mechanical machine in the world.
And he also has to love and to understand all the craftsmanship, we do in our movement.
We started last year to focus also a little bit on lady watches.
So the feeling is now that more and more ladies are coming
and buying Moritz Grossmann watches, especially our Sleeping Beauty, which is a beautiful watch,
but different because the whole case and everything is a little bit asymmetric.
So, we're really going a new way.
We feel more and more that the brand awareness of Grossman is increasing in the different markets.
So step by step, we start now to enter into new countries to open new points of sales.
And we all hope that it will work out
So each year we increase the production steps and in the same way
we start to increase or to enlarge our distribution.
We are happy and very proud to have the partnership with Chrono24.
We work in a very well way together so we are happy and
we see it very positive and we are sure that the business also, step by step it will increase.
