Right on time for the annual Baselworld – World Watch and Jewellery Show (17 March to 24 March 2016), Werenbach has expanded its range with a new model. The latest watch in the collection was developed for astronauts and provides information about the different stages of a Soyuz rocket in orbit.
The LAUNCH SEQUENCER is vastly…
Through the combination of watches and literary pursuit, Patrick Hohmann, founder of WERENBACH, joins two worlds to create something entirely new: the fusing of timepieces with a true tale of adventure. The book is inspiring, captivating and authentic - just like the watches themselves. They are made from space rockets, produced under uniquely challenging conditions…
On 3rd August, motorcyclist Urs Pederita set out on his attempt to break a world record. On his wrist? A Werenbach watch. The challenge? To make it round the world on his motorbike in less than 20 days - a total distance of almost 25,000 kilometres. His daily travel plan included stretches of more than…
Werenbach is launching part one of its new watch collection. What sets these watches apart is the material that goes into them: the case is made from the melted-down outer shell of a genuine Soyuz space rocket following its mission. Numerous adventure-filled trips to the Kazakh Steppe were required to procure the material for watch…
On 23rd January, 2013, Andrea Duttweiler, Marco Vannotti and Patrick Hohmann founded the company Werenbach in Zürich-Hottingen, Switzerland.
The purpose of the company was to produce watches from genuine rocket material. In so doing, Werenbach sought to go one step further than other comparable watch brands, who had thus far succeeded solely in incorporating single pieces…
It barely seemed real. Even as I signed the contract, it was difficult to imagine that the truck carrying the rocket parts would ever actually make it to Switzerland. As such, I wasn’t surprised when the transportation company informed me, shortly after its departure, that the truck had suffered a breakdown. The second breakdown was…
It was on a warm April weekend. I had to release the stress from a hard working week and went jogging in the woods. Running helps me the best to unwind. When I think back to this moment today, my memories are only vague. But I remember the moment very well when I had this…