Damasko

Konrad Damasko has said he set the watch business up as a company of its own, beside his metalworking firm, and that his wife, Petra, runs it.^1, 4

In 1996 he applied in the United States for a patent on a watch case made of a hardenable, nickel-free stainless steel. It was granted in 2000 and is now held by Damasko GmbH.³

Damasko says most of its models now have a case of that kind of steel, hardened all the way through rather than at the surface, and four times harder than ordinary stainless steel.⁶

Damasko says a soft-iron cage around the movement protects its watches against magnetic fields of up to 80,000 A/m, against the standard’s baseline of 4,800 A/m. For its diving line it says it uses the steel of the German Navy’s Class 212 submarines.^6, 7

Damasko’s own movements began with the A 35 in 2010 and the H 35 in 2012; its range also uses Swiss movements from ETA and Sellita.⁸