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Heritage ·
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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Occasional dispatches from Glashütte.
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Heritage ·
The Fliegerchronograph: Germany's First (1941)
A Saxon bank sent a young lawyer to Glashütte to restructure failing pocket-watch workshops. He ended up building Germany's first chronograph wristwatch.
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Heritage ·
The Tempostopp: 236 Parts, 90 Years
George Daniels said he would build five tourbillons before he built a chronograph. Caliber T659 has 236 parts.
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Five Things You Didn't Know About Tutima
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.
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journal.category_partnership ·
Werder Bremen: A Partnership in Green
Tutima has operated from Ganderkesee — 30 minutes from the Weserstadion — since the 1950s. The Werder Bremen partnership, announced in November 2025, connects neighbors.
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The Saxon One M
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.
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The Grand Flieger Airport: Ceramic on a Pilot's Watch
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.
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journal.category_event ·
Inhorgenta 2025: Tutima's New Chapter
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.
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Heritage ·
The NATO Chronograph Story
In 1984, at the height of the quartz crisis, the German military rejected electronic watches and commissioned a mechanical chronograph. Tutima built it.
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The Mara Safari Chronograph
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.
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The Patria Titan: Home in a New Material
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.
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Heritage ·
Tutima Returns to Glashütte
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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