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Some may say the founder of Martin Braun watches has watchmaking in his blood. In 1964, Martin Braun was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, located only 15 miles from Pforzheim., one of Germany’s more traditional watchmaking centers. The son of master goldsmith Karl-Christian Braun, Martin was introduced to watches at an early age and graduated with honors in 1983 from Pforzheim’s famed School of Watchmaking. For his final exams, Braun constructed a modernistic table clock with an eight-day movement, date, Republican calendar (French system in use from 1792 until 1806), accurately running moon phase, and an equation of time that he developed himself.
When unfortunate circumstances caused Karl-Christian Braun’s company to falter, father and son were inspired to collaborate in 1991 to begin creating mechanical masterpieces at a time when the mechanical renaissance had just begun. The pair began restoring rare and vintage historic timepieces from Pforzheim to their precise specifications, and mastered the technique of restoration and complicated mechanisms like perpetual calendars, minute repeaters and all kinds of chronographs.
Martin’s most renowned concept was for the display of sunrise an sunset display, an achievement that took him almost five years to complete in November of 2000. At this time, Martin decided to implement his own watch designs and founded Martin Braun Watches, and the rest is timepiece history.
Company website: www.martin-braun.com
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