MeisterSinger watches

MeisterSinger was founded in Münster, Germany, in 2001 by Manfred Brassler, who had earlier co-founded the quartz watch company Watch People and sold it in 1999. The company takes its name from the Meistersinger, German singers of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance credited with new melodic forms.

MeisterSinger specialises in mechanical single-hand watches, an idea drawn from sundials and early tower clocks. Its dials prefix the hours 1 to 9 with a zero, so that every numeral has two digits. The Circularis was the first model with the company's own hand-wound calibre, the MSH01.