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Aspiring Watchmakers: Wempe's Top-Performing Training Centre in Glashutte

28 January 2025

Young people tend to face one of their biggest challenges in life after leaving school, as, often for the very first time, they begin to plan their professional future. Although the choice is almost limitless, many have not yet been able to sharpen their horizons enough to survey the variety of careers available in much depth. Thus, they usually decide in favour of a profession that is already familiar to them from their surroundings: engineers and craftsmen, doctors, lawyers, teachers or a job in the media or in business are perhaps the most common career choices.One profession that everyone is aware of, yet which usually doesn’t immediately spring to mind when choosing a career and thus deserves more attention is that of watchmaker. A skilled trade that, if you have a passion for mechanical objects, is extremely attractive in many respects. The family-owned company Wempe, a retailer and manufacturer of fine watches and jewellery, plays host to one of the most modern and best training centres in Germany in Glashutte, Saxony. Wempe also offers commercial training programmes, which are completed at various branches and at the headquarters in Hamburg. We took a closer look at what makes the profession of watchmaker', as well as the Wempe training centre in particular, so special...................