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A master engraver and guillocheur in Pforzheim, Germany, hand-decorating dials, bridges and rotors on rose-engine and straight-line lathes. Benzinger's regulators, subscription pieces and full skeletons are built on Swiss manual bases (usually the Unitas 6498) and reworked into near one-offs, which is why prices are quoted rather than listed. If you want the openworked, hand-engraved end of independent watchmaking, this is one of the few real ateliers left.
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InferredSourcing Notes: Benzinger works on Swiss manual and automatic bases — most commonly the Unitas/ETA 6498, plus Sellita automatics — which are skeletonised, guillochéd and hand-engraved in the atelier's own Pforzheim workshop. Dials are decorated in-house; cases are described as Pforzheim-made. Hand suppliers are not disclosed.
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- 🇩🇪Germany
- Headquarters
- 🇩🇪Pforzheim, Germany
- Assembly
- 🇩🇪Pforzheim, Germany
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This page was last updated: November 12, 2026 at 4 am