How a Mühle watch is born

Like our nautical instruments, our wristwatches are also time-measuring instruments, which is why we focus on the three nautical virtues of precision, reliability and good readability when developing new timepieces. In this we see the elementary tasks of a watch, behind which all other functions have to take a back seat.

The design of the dials, hands and cases is therefore largely a matter for the boss, and so our watches are designed in-house by a small design team led by Thilo Mühle.

In a family business, the development of new movements is also largely in the hands of the family.
Which complications are useful for a Mühle watch? What characteristics must a movement have?

A “Mühle” is still the best judge of that. Together with our engineers they are creating special new movements & complications.

We place the highest demands on the quality and precision of a watch movement. That is why we manufacture components for our wristwatches ourselves. Using state-of-the-art CNC machining centers, we are able to manufacture the components we design to within a thousandth of a millimeter.

These are then further processed by hand into a ready-to-assemble workpiece, with precise checks at every step to ensure that they correspond exactly to our ideas. This is a result of our tradition. After all, it was Robert Mühle who began manufacturing measuring instruments for the Glashütte watch industry in 1869.

Even though we manufacture parts on our CNC machining centers to within a thousandth of a millimeter – without the expert hand of our finishers, we would not be able to produce an accurate watch. In the first step, each workpiece is deburred by hand and then, in several steps, completed with a specially designed finish.

All the work is first of all aimed at making our timepieces more precise and reliable. Thus, the ornaments fulfill not only aesthetic but also functional requirements. Functional aesthetics is what we call it.

With our watchmakers, a movement comes from the best hands. Because we see each of our movements as an individual and treat it as such. During assembly, our watchmakers first assemble the individual components into various subassemblies, which are then assembled into a complete movement.

After the movement has been regulated and its functions have been completely checked once again, it is put into operation: that is, the dial and hands are put on and everything is inserted into the case together.

Now the new Mühle watch is ready for the big wide world. Almost, anyway. Because before a watch leaves our factory, it has to prove its qualities in a meticulous final inspection. For almost a whole week, our master watchmakers test the timepiece for accuracy, water resistance and flawless beauty, among other things.