Schiffsuhrensysteme Marine Time Systems

Tradition
Marine Timepieces
from Glashütte/Saxony.
Tradition
Nautische Instrumente Mühle Glashütte has been in business for 135 years.
These have been exciting and eventful years, just as time and history have
been eventful and unique.
Robert Mühle founded the nucleus of our firm
over a century ago and made a major contribution
to the reputation of Glashutte as a
centre of the German watchmaking industry,
producing measuring instruments for the
local watchmakers. In this way he devoted
himself to what is still characteristic of our
business and our products today: precision.
The close-knit nature of the family entreprise
also ensured that this precision was passed
on from generation to generation. The impressive
chronometer (pictured here), made
in 1929, which mechanically and electrically
controlled a beacon system in Bremen, was
a masterpiece by Paul Stübner, a brother-inlaw
of Paul Mühle, the son of the founder.
After 1945, his son Hans Mühle tried to start
out again in the manufacture of measuring
instruments, but the business was expropriated
under the East German government’s
programme of collectivisation.
It was not until 1994, after German reunification,
that the ownership of the firm reverted
to the family, who saw promise in the manufacture
and distribution of marine timepieces
and ships’ clock systems.
To realise this promise, it was first necessary
to thoroughly revitalise the production of
chronometers and nautical timing devices, a
process which had been long overdue.
And so it is that the Mühles are the oldest resident family in Glashütte, who, throughout
this time, have remained committed to precision mechanics and the development and
manufacture of clocks and marine timepieces.
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