Martin Braun Watches

Martin Braun is a master watchmaker who learned and honed his craft in Germany’s classical jewelry and watchmaking city Pforzheim. Years of work with vintage timepieces have sharpened his skills and awakened a desire in him to recreate and improve upon classic designs in watchmaking. Above all, however, he always dreamt of making a new and innovative complication to indicate the wearer’s local time of sunrise and sunset. Ten years in the making, his dream became a reality in the year 2000 with the introduction of the EOS model. Martin Braun extends his family named for figures from Greek mythology, fittingly correlating the classical legends with his classic timepieces. Eos (2001) was the Greek goddess of the sunrise and the matriarch of Martin Braun’s now legendary family. Her child, Boreas (2003), was the Greek god of the north wind. Astraios (2005) was Eos’s husband and the father of her children, including Boreas. Notos (2006) was the son of Eos and Astraios, making him Boreas’s brother and a more than fitting member of this “complicated,” mythical family. Selene (2007) was the goddess of the moon, and sister to Eos. In 2008, Braun adds Kephalos and Zephyros to his family. Somewhat of a rascal, Kephalos was Eos’s mythological lover. Zephyros was a son of EOS and the brother of Boreas and Notos.