Bruno Söhnle
| Bruno Söhnle GmbH Uhratelier Glashütte / Sa.
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2000 |
| Seat | Glashütte (Saxony) |
| management | Bruno Söhnle, Stephanie Söhnle |
| Number of employees | 26 (2011) |
| Branch | Watch industry |
| Website | www.soehnle-uhren.de |
Bruno Söhnle GmbH Uhratelier Glashütte / Sa. is a German watch studio from Glashütte in Saxony that manufactures and sells quartz watches and mechanical wristwatches with manual windings and automatic movements.
history
Bruno Söhnle from Wurmberg in the Black Forest (* 1940), who has been in the watch industry since 1957 , founded the company Bruno Söhnle Uhrenatelier Glashütte / Sa with four employees in April 2000 . As early as 1982 a company was Bruno Söhnle's West German sales partner of the then VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe .
Since 2005 Bruno Söhnle watches have also been offered abroad: initially in Hungary, followed by Austria, Russia and the Ukraine. Today the watches are offered in over 40 countries.
The first watches from Bruno Söhnle GmbH had Swiss quartz movements. In 2008 the first mechanical watch with manual winding was produced with the Mechanik-Edition I. The first automatic collection was presented in 2010. The Bruno Söhnle company was the first to start building quartz watches again after the GUB was split up in Glashütte.
In 2006 Söhnle bought the former Assmannhaus (named after the watchmaker Julius Carl Friedrich Aßmann ) on Dresdner Strasse in Glashütte, in which a restaurant and a guesthouse were still operated. In this house, watches from J. Assmann Deutsche Anker-Uhren-Fabrik Glashütte i. Built on sat . After a renovation and the termination of the tenancy with the tenant, Söhnle expanded watch production to all parts of the house in spring 2012.
In a nationwide survey by an opinion research company, Bruno Söhnle took third place in the best- known German watch brands category in the price range from 300 to 1000 euros .
Watch models
In 2014 Bruno Söhnle offered a total of 55 product lines, including a pocket watch .
In order to be able to label the watches with the designation of origin "Glashütte", a manufacturer must generate at least 50% of the added value of the caliber on site in Glashütte. For this purpose, Bruno Söhnle produces and refines the base plate, automatic bridge, gear train bridge, elevator bridge, lever bridge and balance cock in Glashütte (with various types of gold , white and rose). The rotor is an in-house development by Bruno Söhnle. Some of Bruno Söhnle's watches have Glashütte-typical features such as the sunburst pattern on the gears, blued screws, chatons and the stripe pattern on the three-quarter plate. The quartz calibers are also elaborately refined in Bruno Söhnle's watch studio and are partially visible through the glass shelves.
Awards
- 5th place in the competition for the watch of the year 2010 (category watches up to 2000 euros) for the mechanical edition I
- 8th place in the competition for the Goldene Unruh 2014 (category watches up to 2500 euros) for the Lagomat Day-Date
- 1st place in the GQ Watch Award 2016 for the Stuttgart Automatic Blue in the entry-level watch category
Company building
Company sign
Main entrance company building
Company building, view from the west
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ Axel Spilcker, Thomas van Zütphen: Clocks - Renaissance in Saxon . In: Focus . December 6, 2011 ( paid online [accessed on July 7, 2014]).
- ↑ Quality in precision . In: Schwäbische Zeitung . August 20, 2011 ( paid online [accessed July 7, 2014]).
- ↑ Publication in the commercial register. (No longer available online.) Handelsregister.de, January 22, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 9, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Inga Griese: The precision mechanics of Saxon Switzerland . In: The world . November 6, 2012 ( paid online [accessed on July 7, 2014]).
- ↑ Silberstollen becomes a social room . In: Saxon newspaper . January 25, 2012 ( paid online [accessed July 8, 2014]).
- ↑ a b Thomas Hartwig: Glashütte quartz watch manufacturer Bruno Söhnle presents the first mechanical collection . In: Dresdner Latest News . October 4, 2008 ( paid online [accessed July 7, 2014]).
- ↑ Golden Balance 2014: The winning watches. Vote for the "best watches in the world" 2014. www.watchtime.net, accessed on July 8, 2014 .
- ↑ GQ Watch Award 2016! Bruno Söhnle via Facebook, accessed on October 5, 2016 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '11.7 " N , 13 ° 47' 3.23" E