January 1

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Events

• On 1st January, 1589, two automaton crabs by Hans Schlottheim were registered as new items in the inventory of the Elector of Dresden's Chamber of Curiosities.
• The company name Patek & Co. was changed to Patek Philippe & Co. on 1st January, 1851.
• The German Naval Observatory, Hamburg was founded as an Institution of the German Empire on 1st January, 1875.
• On 1st January, 1888, Germany introduced a standard system of identification of the purity of precious metals.
• The Ladd Watch Case Company moved in to its new six-story factory building on 1st January, 1892.
• The clock and watch manufacturer Union was founded on 1st January, 1893 in Glashütte.
• Starting on 1st January, 1903, Oskar Hesse gave practical training at the German School of Clock and Watchmaking in Glashütte.
• The Vocational College for Prospective Siver- and Goldsmiths in Schoonhoven was declared a Vocational College of the Empire on 1st January, 1920.
• On 1st January, 1938, Herbert Wempe took over Chronometerwerke GmbH.
• On 1st January, 1939, the property rights to H. Fuld & Co. were transferred to the company Lehner & Co.. Since then, the company trades under the name Telefonbau und Normalzeit Lehner & Co.
• The manufactory Heuer and the Leonidas Watch Factory, Saint-Imier merged on 1st January, 1964 to become Heuer-Leonidas.
• In East Germany on 1st January, 1978, the Peoples' State Combine Clock and Machine Manufacture in Ruhla (VEB Uhren- und Maschinenkombinat Ruhla) is assigned to the Microelectronic Combine.
• On 1st January, 1991, Roland Schwertner from Düsseldorf founded the company Nomos Glashütte/Sa.

Births

• Wilhelm Eisenlohr was born on 1st January, 1799 in Pforzheim.
• Erhard Junghans was born on 1st January, 1823 in Zell am Harmersbach.