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Another Episode of Watch Stories!

There is a small village in central Germany called Kalbe.

You have not heard of it. There’s no real reason you would have. Seventy-five hundred

people live there. There is no famous restaurant. The most prominent landmark is the ruins

of a ninth-century castle. The town doesn’t show up on any tourism map.

And in a modest two-story house with a pointed gable, on a quiet street, with a small creek

running through the property and apple and plum trees in the yard...there is a workshop.

Nine people work there. They make somewhere between one hundred and twenty and one

hundred and eighty watches per year. Total.

You have probably never heard of them either.

This is the story of why that’s a problem.

Keywords: Independent Watchmaking, Germany, Kalbe, Dornbluth, Dornblueth & Sohn, Unitas