Tourbillion

Space Chronograph

CNC controlled lathe for prototype and tool manufacturing.

Levin lathe tooled for watch case modification.

Parts inventory for new watch lines.

Inspection of a repaired watch movement.

Milling a square of a new manufactured winding stem.

Three axes precision milling machine.

History

The Towson Watch Company was founded at the beginning of the new millennium, in 2000, by two gentlemen whose passion is working with mechanical time pieces. After 40 years of experience repairing high grade watches, repeaters, chronographs and making his own turbillion watches, George Thomas, a master watchmaker met his partner Hartwig Balke, a graduate in mechanical engineering and talented watchmaker, by chance. In an Irish Pub in Annapolis, after sailors’ small talk, Thomas and Balke soon discovered their common love for high grade mechanical watches. Before the evening ended and they parted to return to their boats, they promised: “We have to meet again!”

Creations

To create something special, mechanical instruments of beauty and precision, was always their dream. Thomas built his first tourbillion pocket watches, displayed now at the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia, Pennsylvania, in 1985 when he was 53 years old.

Years later, in 1999 Balke made his first wrist chronograph when he was 56 years old. It was worn during the first space mission in the new millennium, the STS-99 Mission. He made the watch for a NASA astronaut and mission specialist. A second watch, worn during the same mission, is also on display at the Columbia Museum.

Thomas and Balke now sail together, also in the watch business. Soon after their first meeting, the idea of creating their own watch line became more and more serious and the first 25 wrist chronographs were sold in weeks. George Thomas and Hartwig Balke are partners in TOWSON WATCH CO. LLP

Watches made by Towson Watch Company are not mass-produced, they are made in limited series according to customer’s individual wishes. Towson Watch Co. timepieces appeal to watch connoisseurs, collectors, successful people in sports, arts or professionals like engineers, aircraft pilots, astronauts.

Workshop, New Products & Service

A well equipped workshop with modern and old traditional watchmaker tools and machines, some of which are over a hundred years old, and experienced watchmakers and craftsman take care of the valuable Towson Watch Co. timepieces.

Workshop, Restoration & Repair

For antique pieces, old traditional English lever, fusee watches, or Swiss high grade multi complications, repeaters, chronographs, the Towson Watch Company has the staff to meet the challenge. Engraving will be done by one of the best known engravers in the watch business.