The Erwin Sattler manufactory celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2008. The anniversary not only presents an occasion for us to celebrate, it also offers us a chance to present connoisseurs of our company special editions of clocks in limited editions, each decorated with an anniversary diamond. In the course of the anniversary the biggest precision pendulum clock "Monumentum Temporis" was created.

1903 Watchmaker Heinrich Sattler, grandfather of Erwin Sattler, received an imperial German patent for his design of a perpetual calendar. 1920 Sculptor Oscar Schönfeld founded a company in Munich that reproduced valuable antique-style clocks and realized Schönfeld’s own artistic ideas. 1958 Founding of the Erwin Sattler company. Watchmaker Erwin Sattler acquired Oscar Schönfeld’s antique-style clock collection, adding many new high-quality clocks over the ensuing twenty-five years. The high-quality table and wall clocks were in part hand-carved and gold-plated, and then skillfully painted by the hand of Erwin Sattler’s wife, Viola. 1979 The first wall regulators were manufactured at the end of the 1970s, garnering fame for the company beyond Germany’s borders. 1984 The first precision pendulum clocks containing Sattler’s own movement were realized in collaboration with master watchmaker Robert Schleich. Special features included a completely jeweled movement with sweep seconds and a gridiron pendulum. 1984 Watchmaker Richard Müller started work as an independent traveling salesman for Erwin Sattler in Germany and Austria. 1989 Stephanie Sattler-Rick, Erwin Sattler’s daughter, joined the company’s management team and has since overseen purchasing, sales, and the company’s finances. 1990 Manufactory development: the first computerized lathes and milling machines were purchased under the direction of Richard Müller, who was responsible for the development and quality of movements from this point onward. 1992 Erwin Sattler was turned into a limited partnership. The owners included Erwin Sattler as general partner and Stephanie Sattler-Rick and Richard Müller as limited partners. 2002 Erwin Sattler OHG (general partnership), clock manufactory, was founded. The owners of this company are Stephanie Sattler-Rick and Richard Müller. At this point, more than twenty Sattler movements were being produced in a production depth greater than 90 percent. 2003 The subsidiary Müller & Sattler Uhrenbausatz GmbH, a limited company producing do-it-yourself kits, was founded. 2006 The first precision watch winders for automatic wristwatches were manufactured, equipped with ball-bearing, precision pendulum clock gear trains and unique electronic control systems. The new, autonomous Erwin Sattler manufactory building located at Lohenstraße 6 in Gräfelfing, near Munich, was completed. 2008 Erwin Sattler celebrates its fifty-year anniversary.

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