Please contact me, if you have got old mechanical (please no quarz watches - they are not part of the movement archive) watches sitting in your drawer and wanting to send them to me as a support for the movement archive.
I will display your watch(es) with a little story (and even with additional images, if you provide them to me) here.
Since recently so many interesting movements were donated, the backlog has increased so much, that for new donations, it will take about three years, until they will start to be displayed online.
Thank you very much in advance!
Stefan Schüßler
In the end of November 2024, there was a nice contact with Stefan Schüßler, who asked for identification of a ladies' watch movement and offered to donate it to the movement archive. Interestingly, …
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Rolf
This suprise donation from Rolf is a real win-win situation: The movement archive is happy for the lots of interesting movements, of which some are new for the archive, such as an Urofa 52, and Rolf …
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Jake R. Kaywell
2023 was, with the incredible number of 100 watches and movements, the supporter year of Jake R. Kaywell from the USA, whom as a philantrop and supporter of the movement archive, was it a concern, to …
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Klaus Brunnemer
One of my most important sources for movements is Klaus Brunnemer. I do not only buy movements from him since many years, he also supports me with free spare movements and replacement parts every …
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Lars Schröder
One of the most important supporters of the Archive is Lars Schröder, who not only made many great donations, but who is, due to a number of similar interests, a great sparrings partner, not only for …
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Ulrike Pichler
There was a very nice donation package from Ulrike Pichler in January 2024, consisting of five watches from her, mostly with some personal details behind them, which makes these donations very alive …
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R.Ludwig
From Mr. Ludwig, I got a very nice surprise package with many Timex watches and several watches of other manufacturers. Additionally, there was a very nice and interesting letter. He is a passionate …
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Donations from the Ristow family
There was a heavy surprise package from the family Ristow, which lots of watches. Apart from several fashion quarz watches and spare straps and a Casio Wave Ceptor watch, there were three fantastic …
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R.P.
From Mr.P. there was a nice donation package in May 2024, which contained five interesting watches and movements, which are a great addition to the movement archive. The donation consists of a …
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Chris
At the beginning of the summer break 2022, a wonderful donation package by Chris was sent to the movement archive, consisting mainly of ETA- and AS selfwinding movements. Especially notable is the …
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anonymous donations
From time to time, there are surprisingly anomyous donations. Since I cannot thank the sender directly, I will do that here: […] In February 2017, the movement archive got a nice suprise …
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Christian
In February, there was the opportunity to introduce the movement archive interested members of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie during their “Watch Talk” series. Apart from …
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Hans-Georg
A nice surprise was made by Hans-Georg: Two Raketa watches, both with movements, which were either not yet or not in working condition part of the movement archive: […] Thank you very …
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Wilfried
I had a very nice main conversation with Wilfried, who is also a passionate watch collector and hobbyist and who gave me very interesting insights into radiation of old dials, confirming my caution on …
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Rüdiger
Rüdiger made a wonderful christmas present - the Wostok 2809, the movement archive was looking for since many years, in working condition and even golden toned. He has got a preference for russian …
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Josef M. Stadl (DGC)
With Josef M. Stadl, President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie (German Society for Chronometry) there was a very nice correspondence and a great support of the Archives in the form of a …
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Marco Bublitz
In November 2022, Marco made a nice surprise donation, consisting of a handfull of Ruhla watches (among them the chronograph movement UMF 24-53 in version C with the plastic lever) and an Otero 749K. …
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G.Sch.
A true surprise package came in August 2023 from G.Sch. (please tell me, if I can write the full name here), full with watches of the past 100 years, lots of pocket and pendant watches to extra large …
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Rolf-Jürgen
Rolf-Jürgen (aka “Hiltibrant” in the german UhrForum), donated some very interesting additions to the archive: […] In spring 2017, he donated another three movements to the movement …
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Egon Berne
The year 2024 started with a giant package of movements and watches, which increased the number of movements in the archive by almost 20 and also brought a few yet non working movements in the archive …
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Mario
Mario, who is known in the german Uhr-Forum as “fuchsgiro” is an expert and fan of UMF watches from Ruhla, Germany. He donated a number of movements and watches, which were not yet in the …
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Erwin
A very heavy suprise is the donation of Erwin. In this box there are no less than 46 mechanical watches and movements for the archive Some of them will be new additions and many others can be used for …
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Prof. Peter Schmid
Professor Peter Schmidt, who studied watch technics at the Stuttgart University, and whose father was a watchmaker master with an own shop, supported the movement archive with a surprise bag of spare …
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Marius
There was a very nice donation by Marius in October 2023: His granddad gave him a few old watches that he was supposed to dispose of but he luckily stopped by the movement archive and asked if it was …
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Detlef Rode
In October 2023, there was a surprise donation from Detlef Rode. He is a collector of russian watches and obtained a large stock of “watch scrap” from a watchmakers' estate. It contained …
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Peter Kern
A nice suprise package came from Peter Kern. He is, much longer than me, interested in working on watches, and thanks to a good source ( (Horlogerie Herrli in Switzerland, without website, but nicely …
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Thomas Dürre
The end of April 2023, Thomas Dürre made a nice donation, consisting of the well known Miyota 8203A (where the weekday indication is present, but not used) and the, incomplete, but even more …
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Brigitte Abels-Zell
Brigitte Abels-Zell donated a very beautiful Bifora with a personal history in which this watch was very much appreciated- It is not only visually a highlight, but also the movement, a Bifora 910/1 is …
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Günther
In spring 2022, a nice donation was made from Günther from Munich, consisting of three ladies' watch and two pocket watch movements. The Kienzle pocket watch is a really odd specimen, because on its …
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Karl Höhl
A very nice C.Bucherer ladies' watch in great condition for the yet not archived ETA 372 was donated by Karl in spring 2022: […] Thank you very much for your great support of the …
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Joachim Becker (HB) collection
Hermann Becker (HB) founded in Dietlingen near Pforzheim / Germany a watch factory, which was directed after his early death in the beginning 1950s by its widow and later by its children, Joachim …
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Dusan
Dusan made a nice donation with a Geneva Sport 230 for spare parts with a working balance wheel. With that donation, the Geneva Sport 230 specimen in the movement archive, which had a broken balance …
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Astrid and Detlev
Detlev donated a very interesting pocket watch to the archive. It is an Alpina pocket watch from the late 1910s or 1920s, with chain and matching safety case. This watch uses a not really well …
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Horst Kull
A special surprise came from Horst Kull, from the other edge of Germany, a box with a handfull of Asco-375 movements, without electronics parts, but mechanical complete. […] Since this movement …
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G.E.W. Gehrke
From Mr. Gehrke, a huge and heavy surprise packages was donated to the movement archive. Besides many movements, it also contains a giant number of spare parts, many of them for Kasper and PUW …
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Hans H. Hanebuth
With a very interesting package, Hans H. Hanebuth supported the movement archive. The range of watches and their movements was from an unknown high-class Meylan pocket watch, reworked as a wristwatch, …
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Philipp Porter
Philipp supported the archive with a very interesting watch, on which not only its dial advertisement of “The Best Shock-Proof Lever” is really interesting, but also the movement, an Oris …
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Ralf
Ralf donated that great Wostok Kommandirski Automatic with its inhouse caliber 2416B, which now can be seen in detail: […] Thank you very much for supporting the movement archive!
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Jürgen
There was a nice mail contact with Jürgen, who made a fantastic donations with a huge number of watches and movements. The highlight among them is a BWC quartz watch from the early 1970ies …
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V.Weigmann
At the end of the summer (and relaunch) break, there was a nice support packages from Ms. Weigmann. She donated next to a handfull of quartz fashion watches a Swatch GB 101 from the first series and …
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Cornelia Bergemann
“Außen pfui, innen hui. :-)” (Outside flop, inside top) With this nice description of her donation, Cornelia Bergemann surprised the movement archiv. It is the old watch of her …
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Katja
Katja sent a nice surprise package with a dozen watches, she inherited from her grandfather. The highlight of this collections is a Ruhla Stopp-Meister “chronograph”, powered by an UMF …
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Götz Schweitzer
Götz Schweitzer, THE Bifora expert, founding member and long year chairman of the german Bifora Freundeskreis e.V. made a great donation to the movement archive with very rare Bifora movements and …
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U.Bohnet-Ströbel
Mrs Bohnet-Ströbel sent a nice surprise donation package, which contained among several fashion and normal quartz watches also a vintage Prätina watch, probably from the 1960ies, in which an Osco 850 …
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Deborah Ko
Although modern quartz watches are not the focus of the movement archive, parts of this donation can be used, like the new battery, the hands and the bracelet. Thank you very much for the …
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Hans
Hans, from the north of Germany, and known as “mausiele” in the german Uhr-Forum, donated even three Poljot 2609H, of which one ran perfectly, the second was in need of a service and the …
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Inge Söll
Inge Söll donated an older Citizen Seven quartz watch, which, to my surprise, contained a ladies' watch movement. Nevertheless, the hands and especially the bracelet can be re-used without problems. …
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Christoph Reiner
Christoph Reiner, who is better known as “EMESUhren” in the german Uhr-Forum is connected since generations with EMES, the former manufacturer of Schwenningen, Germany. On a visit of the …
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Mr. and Mrs. Ditte
The married couple Ditte sent a very nice pre christmas surprise package, consisting of two fashion quarz watches and three vintage Wostok Kommandirski manual wind watches from the 1980 or 1990ies. …
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U.Ströbel-Dettmer
From Mrs.Ströbel-Dettmer, there’s a kind surprise donations with a number of quarz watches in good condition (including an unused radio controlled watch) and two mechanical ladies' watches: A …
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Günter G.
Günter G. sent a heavy surprise package with a box full of watches, some of them in great condition, and additionally another box full of Ruhla movements and spare parts, including a disassembled …
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B.Kannter
I got this surprising donation from Mrs.Kannter. It consists of three quartz watches, a no-name ladies' watch with an almost unused strap, a ladies' Swatch from 1996 and a very large Swatch Diaphane …
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G.Keilhammer
After a nice phone call, where I unfortunately couldn’t resolve his problem, how and where to repair chinese movements, I got a very nice donation from Mr.Keilhammer, who also likes to work with …
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Kristina Iyilikci
The packet from Kristina Iyilikci contained six quartz watches, some with straps in good condition, and a still working Dugena fashion watch from the 1970ies. This watch contains the INT AS 1977-4 in …
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Marko Neumann
A surprising donation by Marko Neumann are these two quartz watches, which contain bracelets in good condition. Thank you very much to Marko for that nice donation!
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Rudolf Jeromin
As thanks for an evaluation of an Eppler watch, Rudolf Jeromin donated spare parts for a Bifora 2025 (the first inhouse Bifora movement), as well as a ladies' watch with yet unidentified movement (for …
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Gundula Stein
There was a very nice donation from Gundula Stein. She and her sister found during a household cleanup the four mechanical watches of their parents, which they didn’t want to throw away. Thses …
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G.Müller
In july, I got a package from Miss Müller, a really wonderful donation with quarz watches and half a dozen of thrilling mechanical watches. Among the quarz watches, there’s a rarely used, ultra …
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Harald Hoeber
Harald donated many, many movements for my archiv yet, so it’s time to officially thank him on this place, too! […] Harald loves to work on microminiature models, like the helicopter …
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Karl Bindlehner
Karl Bindlehner from Austria donated this gorgeous Buchner & Bovalier watch from the “Advocat” series, which was harmed by a drop onto a floor not only on the crystal, but also on the …
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Donated watch: Junghans ladies' watch
(from Sigrid Schmiedel-Köster) The Junghans ladies' watch displayed here is a very personal donation by Sigrid Schmiedel-Köster. She belonged to her mother and was worn for a long time, as you see …
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Donated watch: Ormo ladies' watch
(from Sigrid Schmiedel-Köster) This Ormo ladies' watch was donated by Sigrid Schmiedel-Köster. It uses a cylinder movement from Felsa, which is quite remarkable, since this watch was probably …
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Donated watch: Meister-Anker Automatic
(from Frank Schramm) This unusual model of the “Meister-Anker” Spezichron by Glashütte was donated in July 2006 by Frank Schramm. It is unusual, since unlike the Meister-Anker Automatic …
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