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·Or: How to engage a watchmaker:
Hallo friends, I come up with a special story:
After the rise of the last century, there was a reknowned chronometer maker, Louis Kurtz in Münster/Germany.
His ships chronometers were tested as 1. class at the Deutsche Seewarte, the German Naval Observatory in Hamburg and were purchased by the German Imperial Navy before WWI.
Such a precision chronometer was essential for determining the exact longitude of a location at sea, more than a hundred years ago there was no GPS or quartz precision.
When the First World War ended, his sales endet up. So he offered his left chronometers to the US Navy. They were tested at the Naval Observatory in Washington, approved, and purchased. (See the test results: the first ranks were held by Lange & Söhne, Ulysse Nardin and Louis Kurtz.)
After Louis Kurtz died in 1925, master watchmaker Wilhelm Nonhoff took over the shop in Münster, which is my hometown as well.
When I was searching for these roots and any precision clocks that might still have survived, I found out that their last master watchmaker has retired. As he still lives near Münster, I tracked him and since then he helps me by providing first-class service for any special watches and instruments.
Again after a while I traced the shown chronometer 'Kurtz No. 134' that was owned by the US Navy. I could buy it from my friend Chris from Ohio.
I donated it to my watchmaker as a historic master piece of his predecessor and since then, he refused to get any compensation for his help in complex watch restaurations.
Greetings Konrad
Hallo friends, I come up with a special story:
After the rise of the last century, there was a reknowned chronometer maker, Louis Kurtz in Münster/Germany.
His ships chronometers were tested as 1. class at the Deutsche Seewarte, the German Naval Observatory in Hamburg and were purchased by the German Imperial Navy before WWI.
Such a precision chronometer was essential for determining the exact longitude of a location at sea, more than a hundred years ago there was no GPS or quartz precision.
When the First World War ended, his sales endet up. So he offered his left chronometers to the US Navy. They were tested at the Naval Observatory in Washington, approved, and purchased. (See the test results: the first ranks were held by Lange & Söhne, Ulysse Nardin and Louis Kurtz.)
After Louis Kurtz died in 1925, master watchmaker Wilhelm Nonhoff took over the shop in Münster, which is my hometown as well.
When I was searching for these roots and any precision clocks that might still have survived, I found out that their last master watchmaker has retired. As he still lives near Münster, I tracked him and since then he helps me by providing first-class service for any special watches and instruments.
Again after a while I traced the shown chronometer 'Kurtz No. 134' that was owned by the US Navy. I could buy it from my friend Chris from Ohio.
I donated it to my watchmaker as a historic master piece of his predecessor and since then, he refused to get any compensation for his help in complex watch restaurations.
Greetings Konrad
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