The Hommage: 550 Components, One Day in May
When Tutima returned to Glashütte, Dieter Delecate chose to build the hardest watch first. Caliber 800 has over 550 components.
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Tutima — Unabhängige Manufaktur. Glashütte, Deutschland, seit 1927. Glashütte, seit 1927.
Gelegentliche Nachrichten aus Glashütte.
When Tutima returned to Glashütte, Dieter Delecate chose to build the hardest watch first. Caliber 800 has over 550 components.
Weiterlesen →A Saxon bank sent a young lawyer to Glashütte to restructure failing pocket-watch workshops. He ended up building Germany's first chronograph wristwatch.
Weiterlesen →George Daniels said he would build five tourbillons before he built a chronograph. Caliber T659 has 236 parts.
Weiterlesen →A 27-year-old lawyer, a space station, a sound laboratory, and a movement factory that supplied one of the most famous names in German watchmaking. Tutima's history resists summary.
Weiterlesen →Tutima has operated from Ganderkesee — 30 minutes from the Weserstadion — since the 1950s. The Werder Bremen partnership, announced in November 2025, connects neighbors.
Weiterlesen →At €1,590 on leather, the Saxon One M is the least expensive watch Tutima builds in Glashütte. The sapphire caseback shows why the price is the surprising part.
Weiterlesen →At Inhorgenta 2020, Tutima fitted the Grand Flieger Airport with a ceramic bezel for the first time. The material choice was not aesthetic — it was mechanical.
Weiterlesen →At Inhorgenta Munich in February 2025, a Tutima watchmaker bent a Breguet overcoil by hand at a workbench on the booth floor. Behind him, a new company, new leadership, and five new models.
Weiterlesen →In 1984, at the height of the quartz crisis, the German military rejected electronic watches and commissioned a mechanical chronograph. Tutima built it.
Weiterlesen →Marc Goss's father wore a Tutima chronograph as a ranger and pilot in Kenya. The Mara Safari Chronograph — 250 numbered pieces in titanium — continues that connection and supports the Mara Elephant Project.
Weiterlesen →The Patria line began in rose gold, moved to steel, and now — for 2025 — arrives in grade 5 titanium. Caliber 617 stays the same: 171 parts, one watchmaker, hand-wound.
Weiterlesen →The day the Berlin Wall fell, Dieter Delecate drove from Ganderkesee to Glashütte — the town where Tutima was born and dismantled. It took nineteen years, but he brought it back.
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