Kienzle Clock

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MILESTONES IN KIENZLE HISTORY

• 1822   Johannes Schlenker founds a clocksmith's workshop in Schwenningen and starts with manufacture and sales of hand-crafted, wooden twelve-hour clocks with a cord-driven (weighted) winding mechanism. When his three sons take over the business, there are already 20 members of staff producing 2,000 pendulum and wall clocks per year.
• 1855   "Nightwatchman's recording clocks" are sold all over the world.
• 1883   24-year-old merchant Jakob Kienzle marries into the Schlenker family and becomes partner in the company, which is now trading under the name "Schlenker & Kienzle". Production of so-called "flywheel clocks" featuring a solid fourteen-day regulator is introduced. The number of employees now exceeds 60.
• 1889   Launch of production of taximeter clocks, a cross between an odometer, a clock and a calculator.
• 1894   The product range is expanded to include the so-called "time stamp clocks" ("attendance recorders"), kitchen clocks, mantle and desk clocks.
• 1897   Jakob Kienzle (born April 12, 1859) becomes the sole owner.

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• 1900   The product range is expanded to include the so-called "time stamp clocks" ("attendance recorders"), kitchen clocks, mantle and desk clocks.
• 1902   Schlenker & Kienzle set up a subsidiary in Milan and a sales office in London.
• 1903   For the first time, production figures for clocks and movements pass the million mark. A subsidiary is established in Paris.
• 1904   Launch of production of inexpensive pocket watches. This eventually leads to the well-known "Kienzle rugged pocket watch" which will be manufactured for decades.
• 1908   Launch of wrist watch production. A comprehensive watch catalogue lists 560 different models. Annual production of watches and movements surpasses two million pieces. Staff at home and abroad totals approximately 1,700.
• 1910   Launch of production of the first automotive clocks: for Rolls-Royce in England, for example. Almost every clock fitted in a German-made car in the 1950s and 1960s is produced by Kienzle. Customers include Jaguar, Daimler, BMW, Volvo, Audi, Renault, Ford and Opel/Vauxhall.
• 1911   "Kienzle Clock & Co" is set up in New York, USA.
• 1919   Conversion of "Uhrenfabriken Schlenker & Kienzle" into "Kienzle Uhrenfabriken KG, Schwenningen".
• 1920   Launch of development of Kienzle autographs, later marketed as Kienzle tachographs.
• 1922   Company converts from a limited partnership (KG) into a joint-stock company. Shares are restricted to family members.
• 1923   Sales office set up in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1928   The Kienzle company is divided between the two sons Herbert and Christian into "Kienzle Uhrenbau" in Schwenningen and "Kienzle Taxameter & Apparate AG" in Villingen. Tachographs are introduced into the manufacturing programme.
• 1931   Launch of production and sale of the wrist-watch movement 051. About 25 million of these movements are fitted into watches and sold.
• 1932   During the 1930s, the automotive clock is developed further to the legendary 8-day aviation clock, which is incorporated into the cockpit instrument panel.
• 1938   Creation of the first Kienzle world time clock, which is unique and with continual development proves to be a real "gem of a clock".
• 1950   By the mid-1950s, more than half the adding and booking machines used in Germany are made by Kienzle/ Villingen.
• 1954   Production reaches three million mark again. The first parking meters are invented, manufactured almost exclusively by Kienzle in the 1950s and 1960s.
• 1956   The "people's automatic watch" is born, thus achieving the breakthrough for wrist watches with an automatic winding mechanism.
• 1963   Introduction of the first "Heliomat" solar clock. The "Superia" chronometer ticks in a gold-plated, 35 mm casing with a blast-welded steel back.
• 1964   The "Kienzle Zürich AG" subsidiary is set up. Kienzle Swiss watches are added to the high-end range of wrist watches.
• 1965   Sales offices set up in USA and Austria, turnover exceeds DM 60 million. Special exhibition of Kienzle timepieces in the City Hall, Hong Kong.
• 1969   Kienzle acquires a clock manufacturing plant in Brazil and establishes Kienzle do Brasil Ltda. in Sao Paulo. Production and sales of mechanical alarm clocks and quartz watches prosper.
• 1970   Launch of the "Kienzle-Automatic", the first functionally styled automatic alarm clock. Kick-off for the electronic movement 627. Production: over 16 million, worldwide distribution. Annual turnover passes the 80 million mark; about 6.4 million units are produced. Another very successful seventies venture is the development of electronic office machines and computers, partly in collaboration with the German computer specialist Heinz Nixdorf.
• 1972   For the first time, mechanical watches featuring a digital display appear alongside the mechanical wrist watches with an analogue display. "Kienzle life 2002" display the hours, minutes and seconds in three separate digital windows.
• 1974   Kienzle moves into the lead as Germany's biggest wrist-watch manufacturer. In order to open up to new markets, Kienzle adopts a resolute diversification strategy encompassing electric heating cost distributors and wing mirrors for cars in its production range.
• 1976   Kienzle is the first company to manufacture quartz LED wrist watches, simultaneously adopting the production of quartz analogue wrist watches.
• 1977   The first quartz radio alarm clocks hit the market.
• 1978   The first fully electronic "Variogong" chime and the new digital quartz stop watch "Chronostopp" are introduced.
• 1980   Launch of the new quartz movement 716. More than 27 million of these movements are manufactured until the end of 1987. Motor drive units for adjusting automotive wing mirrors go into serial production. Turnover exceeds DM 81 million.
• 1986   Kienzle introduces a new world time clock into its range. Besides analogue local time, selectable world times and dates in digital form, this also features a calendar that can be programmed until the end of the third millennium. With its polycrystalline solar generator, which even runs in very low light conditions and up to fourteen days when fully charged, the Kienzle solar clock represents a novelty.
• 1987   Launch of a new generation of quartz movements. Inauguration of the new factory building of Kienzle Uhrenfabriken. With 300 million timepieces sold all over the world, the brand becomes an international byword for German quality clocks and watches.
• 1989   Kienzle is taken over by DUFA (Deutsche Uhrenfabrik GmbH). With a daily production rate of more than 70,000 timepieces and movements, a staff of almost 800 and an annual turnover of approximately DM 120 million, the DUFA Group represents one of Europe's leading clock and watch manufacturers.
           A highlight of the 1990s: the most water-resistant watch in the world with a water-resistance level up to 12,000 m. The casing of this diver's watch is filled with silicone oil to enable it to withstand the enormous pressure at such depths.
• 1992   The new collection of radio-controlled timepieces with the LCA radio-controlled calendar clock are introduced as a world novelty. The world's first radio-controlled "satellite" alarm clock featuring an analogue waking time setting is presented at the Inhorgenta trade fair in Munich. Katja Seizinger, Germany's SKI hope for the Olympics, is sponsored by Kienzle.
• 1996   A new radio-controlled movement is perfected: the smallest dual-motor, radio-controlled movement with the fastest setting system to date: a world innovation! Whereas other movements of this size require up to 25 minutes to adjust to the correct time, this movement displays the right time within just five minutes of being put into operation.
• 1997   Company is taken over by the Highway Holdings Group, Hong Kong.
• 1998   Relaunch of Kienzle's large clock range and the production of quartz alarm clocks for reputed European brand suppliers.

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• 2002   Foundation of the Kienzle AG in Hamburg, Germany.
• 2003   A total of 650,000 timepieces are sold in 2003 and 2004.
• 2006   Kienzle is taken over by owners and management who purchase the worldwide brand and distribution rights. Kienzle positions itself as a German brand acting on an international stage. Coverage of different market sectors and sales outlets at home and abroad has been ensured by streamlining the product range and through delineation.
           Innovative new developments, such as the high-tech ANA / Digi watch, the FL 22602 board watch featuring a unique winding technique, plus the Heritage Retro replicas underpin Kienzle's image as a leading brand company.
           Since 1954, KIENZLE has been awarded the iF Product Design Award for more than 100 products. This includes such products as automatic booking machines, clocks in period design, alarm clocks, wrist watches, the magnetic ledger accounting computer KIENZLE 6000 digital printer, tape punches, timers, car clocks, telescope, battery-driven alarm clock, Kienzle Computer 6100, visual display units, parking meters, to name just a few.
• 2007   Launch of the collection KIENZLE 1822.
• 2007   Launch of the EDITION JAKOB KIENZLE, complication watches with manufacture in Germany.
• 2007   Reorganization of the KIENZLE management, Stephan W. Kruse-Thamer is now CEO.
• 2008   Launch of the collection KIENZLE 1822- Made in Germany.
• 2008   Move to the KIENZLE-house in Hamburg, Germany.
• 2009   Extention of top-management level. Next to Stephan W. Kruse-Thamer, Ralf Estor and Frank Bierbrodt join the company as members of the management team.
• 2010   KIENZLE becomes an official partner of the famous German soccer club Hamburger SV.
• 2010   Integration of the German traditional brand Lacher & co into the KIENZLE watch manufacture.

Source: http://www.kienzleuhren.de/542.html?L=1

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นาฬิกาปลุกไขลาน โลโก้สวยๆ คลาสสิค 

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[da bmw]

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ป้ายแบบนี้ที่เยอรมนียังหายากมากส์ๆ เลยครับพี่ด๋า
ผมเคยเห็นแต่ในพิพิธภัณฑ์เค้าน่ะครับ
สุดๆ จริงครับ เอามาลงเยอะๆ ค้าบพี่ 

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ขอขอบพระคุณพี่ da bmw สำหรับ Kienzle S.A.B. สวยๆ รุ่นช่วงปี 1955(พศ.2498) เรือนนี้ อีกครั้งนะค้าบบบบ (^/\^)

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เรื่องหนึ่งที่ผมชอบเกี่ยวกับยี่ห้อนี้คือเรื่องการอ่านชื่อ Kienzle ครับ
ก่อนหน้านั้นผมก็อ่านว่าแคนเซิล เคียนเซิลมาตลอด พอดีมีโอกาสได้ไปคุยโม้กับลุงเจ้าของร้านของฝากที่เมือง Stuttgart
ผมบอกลุงแกว่าผมสะสมนาฬิกาเยอรมันโบราณ แกบอกรู้จักมั๊ยยี่ห้อ คี้นซเลอร์ ดังนะ ผมงงตั้งนานยี่ห้อรัยหว่า
จนแกเขียนตัวหนังสือให้เลยอ๋อ ลองมาฟังเสียงกันนะครับ อ่านตามเยอรมันครับ 

http://www.forvo.com/word/kienzle/#de

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ถ่ายรูปไว้เมื่อ ๖ ปีก่อน ครับเด้อครับ..

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Saven แล้วเครื่องแบบนี้เป็นของ Kienzle หรือเปล่า ผลิตปีอะไรเครื่องนี้ 

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โลโก้กับที่แขวนตุ้มนี่ของ Kienzle แน่นอนครับพี่เปี๊ยก
แต่ถ้าให้ผมดูแค่จากชุดเฟืองแล้วบอกยี่ห้อกับปีนี่ผมยังไม่เก๋าพอน่ะครับ ฮี่ๆ

[คนเก่า]

โลโก้กับที่แขวนตุ้มนี่ของ Kienzle แน่นอนครับพี่เปี๊ยก
แต่ถ้าให้ผมดูแค่จากชุดเฟืองแล้วบอกยี่ห้อกับปีนี่ผมยังไม่เก๋าพอน่ะครับ ฮี่ๆ

ถามฝรั่งให้ผมด้วยนะครับ....จะมารอคำตอบ

เชฟ ดูโลโก้สิ ของผมคำว่า kienzle ไม่มี งงอีกแล้ว

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ที่เกี่ยวตุ้มแกว่งของ Kienzle จะเกี่ยวยากซักหน่อย ^_^

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ฟังการออกเสียง Kienzle ดีๆ นะครับ ^_^