Moritz Grossmann

Carl Moritz Grossmann, born in Dresden on March 27, 1826, travelled to learn his trade in Switzerland, England, France, Denmark and Sweden, and in 1854 set up his own workshop in Glashütte, making pocket watches, pendulum clocks and precision measuring instruments.^1, 2

He wrote on horology and taught it. The German School of Watchmaking, opened on May 1, 1878, was founded on his initiative and to his plan, and turned watchmaking from a craft learned by experience into a technical discipline. He died in Leipzig on January 23, 1885, and his workshop was wound up; his life is told under Moritz Grossmann.^{1, 2, 5, 6}

Christine Hutter trained as a watchmaker in Munich and worked for the retailer Wempe, Maurice Lacroix, Glashütte Original and A. Lange & Söhne before securing the rights to Grossmann’s name with her family’s help. She founded Grossmann Uhren GmbH in Glashütte on November 11, 2008.^1, 3

The company presented its debut watch, the Benu, in 2010, and in 2013 moved into its own manufactory building on Uferstraße. Unlike most of the town’s makers it builds its movements on a two-thirds plate, finished with broad Glashütte stripes, and assembles each movement twice; the town’s ways of building a movement are described under The Glashütte tradition.^{1, 3, 9, 10}