History

The Wakmann Watch Co. was established in New York. WAKMANN was the importer of different high quality brands for the north-american market. One of those brands and surely the most famous was Breitling. Some of them even got a double-signature and were sold as “BREITLING WAKMANN”. Parallel to the sales-business, WAKMANN started to produce his own watches after World War II.

All the watches were taken from sellers in europe and most of them from switzerland. This time, WAKMANN already the watches of Wakmann have been with a maximum of style, quality and technicaly know-how. Specially the technical part was one of the most controlled and checked parts and highest quality was allways one of the main features. This explains, why WAKMANN watches have always been one of the favorite brands for collectors watchlovers. First of all the different Valjoux chrono-movements with ratched, like the caliber 72, 88, 730 and the very rare and seldom Valjoux 92.

Because of the really outstanding quality and the conclusive precision of the watches, WAKMANN was able to establish oneself as official producer and deliverer for the military. Next to wristwatches,WAKMANN was also the deliverer of onboard-watches for the military forces. Even the fact that WAKMANN was official producer and deliverer for the U.S. Military shows, how perfect the quality of WAKMANN watches is.

After a great history, WAKMANN is back to tie on that great story of success. Wonderfull collector’s pieces, small series and some unique watches will be produced as WAKMANN Germany.