D. Dornblüth & Sohn
About the company
For most people the Altmark is just a flat landscape. It is neither very well known, nor is it among the most popular places in the world. For us however, the Altmark is the most beautiful spot on the face of the earth. We love the countryside; we love the meadows crossed by the little river Milde, and the stork couple that every year gather at the Hausmannsturm of the castle ruins to spend the summer here in peace and to raise their young. And we love to make our fine timepieces right here. With abundance of technical skill and love for detail, true craftsmanship is created in Kalbe an der Milde. <br /> <br /> Craftsmanship that is now being continued by the second generation. In delicate handwork with the finest and innovative materials such as brass, hardened carbon steel, silver, gold, platinum and modern ceramics, we create unique watches exclusively on traditional machines, and only with the help of our hands. For people who see the world with our eyes, who see the small in the big picture, and the special in common, and who think of home when they hear the word home. For us Altmark is home, and our watches are at home here. We are just not like most people, and we are proud of that!<br /> With the Dornblüth calibers, father and son proved that their own ideas in the art of watchmaking do not necessarily need sophisticated CNC technique. Even today, passionate and dedicated watchmakers can create handcrafted precision watches using only traditional tools and machines.<br /> <br /> In the tradition of the old masters, we wanted to prove that the fine German watchmaking of our antecedents is still possible by our craftsmanship without any computer-controlled machines even in the internet age. The components of our movements are almost completely crafted and finished by hand, before the watch’s heart starts to beat, out of the sum of the components. Every single watch manufactured at our house is unique. Experience our traditional craftsmanship of fine German watchmaking as it used to be hundred years ago.