Reinhard Meis

Reinhard Meis (born February 9, 1940 in Koppelow ) is a German watchmaker and non-fiction author about historical clocks .

Life

Meis is a trained watchmaker, state-certified precision technician and designer. As a product developer, he shaped selected watches within the LMH Group ( Les Manufactures Horlogères ), to which International Watch Company , Jaeger-LeCoultre and A. Lange & Sons belonged. The development of the product design and the construction characteristics of the so-called “new Lange watches” was largely in his hands and those of his team.

Publications

• Old clocks and music boxes. From private collections and holdings of the Rosgarten Museum. Society of Friends of the Rosgarten Museum, Konstanz 1976 (exhibition catalog).
• The old clock. History, technology, style. A manual for collectors and enthusiasts (= library for friends of art and antiques. Vol. 53, ZDB -ID 518703-5 ). 2 volumes. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1978.
• Pocket watches. From the neck watch to the tourbillon. Callwey, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7667-0484-2 (4th, expanded and revised edition, ibid 1990, ISBN 3-7667-0957-7 ); 5th, completely revised edition.
• IWC watches. The "Schaffhausers" and their history. Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1985, ISBN 3-85378-253-1 .
• The tourbillon. Fascination of watch technology. Laterna magica, Munich et al. 1986, ISBN 3-87467-293-X (2nd, extended edition, ibid. 1993, ISBN 3-7667-1059-1 ).
• with Gerd-Rüdiger Lang : Chronographs - wristwatches. Munich 1992.
• A. Lange. A watchmaker dynasty from Dresden. Callwey, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7667-1286-1 (3rd edition ibid 2001).

Clocks

• Tourbo graph “Pour le Mérite” by A. Lange & Söhne from 2005. The most complicated watch from the Glashütten company cost 380,000 euros at the time.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Meis in the catalog of the German National Library