Since 1871
The ASKANIA watches have their roots in Berlin. In 1871, Carl Bamberg, the son of a watchmaker from Thuringia and a protégé of Carl Zeiss, founded a manufactory called “Bambergwerke” at Linienstrasse 185 in Berlin.
Leonhard R. Mueller was the initiator and executor of the ambitious plan to revitalize the traditional Berlin brand ASKANIA and make it a fine address for high-quality handmade watches. He comes from the goldsmith town of Pforzheim; He spent a part of his professional life in the watch industry in Switzerland and today, as chairman of the executive board, he embodies the rebirth of the ASKANIA AG in Berlin like no other.
Thanks to outstanding innovations in the field of measurement technology, the company developed into a leading representative of the precision mechanics and optical industry in Germany and soon worldwide within a short period of time.
Every watch starts with an idea. Before an ASKANIA watch is designed, sketches of the model are made to define proportions, functions and optics.
As soon as the sketch meets the demands of the ASKANIA watchmakers, they are built in prototype form.
The production of ASKANIA watches is carried out exclusively by watchmakers who manufacture the case and rework the movement with utmost precision.
The automatic movement is skeletonized, mechanical components are reduced, so that they are revealed in an embellished form.
