Press Announcement | 2008-04-02

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History of Erwin Sattler ´s Clock Manufactory

• 1903 The watchmaker Heinrich Sattler, the grandfather of Erwin Sattler, received a German Imperial Patent for his design of a perpetual calendar.
• 1920 The sculptor Oscar Schönfeld founded a company in Munich, where he reproduced valuable clocks and realized artistic ideas.
• 1958 Founding of the company Erwin Sattler. The watchmaker Erwin Sattler acquired Oscar Schönfeld`s clock collection. He added many new clocks over the next 25 years. The high-quality table and wall clocks were partly carved and gold-plated, and then painted by hand in the highest skill by Viola Sattler, Erwin Sattler`s wife. At the end of the 1970s the first regulators were manufactured, which gained the company respect beyond the german borders.
• 1984 The first precision clocks with own Sattler movement realized in collaboration with the master watchmaker Robert Schleich. Special features were a complete jeweled movement with central second and gridiron pendulum.
• 1984 The watchmaker Richard Müller begins to work as a representative for Germany and Austria for the company of Erwin Sattler.
• 1989 Stephanie Sattler, the daughter of Erwin Sattler, joins the company as a business executive and starts managing buying and sales forthe enterprise.
• 1990 Development of the manufactory: Under the direction of Richard Müller, who was responsible for the development and the quality of the movements from this time, the first computerized drilling and milling machines were purchased.
• 1992 The Company Erwin Sattler was converted into a KG (limited partnership). The owners were Erwin Sattler as general partner, Stephanie Sattler-Rick and Richard Müller as limited partners.
• 2002 Founding of the Erwin Sattler OHG (general partnership), clock manufactory. Owners of the company are Stephanie Sattler-Rick and Richard Müller. Meanwhile, over 20 Sattler movements are produced. The production depth for the movements is more than 90%.
• 2003 Founding of the subsidiary Müller & Sattler Clock Kit GmbH (Ltd).
• 2006 Production of the first precision watch winder for automatic watches complete by equipped with ball bearings, a precision pendulum movement and a unique electronic control system.
• 2006 Move to the own new Erwin Sattler manufactory building in Lohenstraße 6 in Gräfelfing near Munich
• 2008 Jubilee 50 years Erwin Sattler

Contact
SR M Werbeagentur GbR
Sabine Müller
Lohenstraße 6
82166 Gräfelfing

Telefon: + 49 (89) 89 55 806-12
Email: sabine.muellererwinsattler.de

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