Steinhausen

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Steinhausen is proud to introduce the Luxury Watch Traveling Case. Handsomely designed to keep your timepiece collection in the best condition through the harshest of traveling conditions, the Luxury Watch Traveling Case will ensure you have your favorite timepiece with you no matter where the road (or sea, or air) takes you! Pre-order today and be the first to own what some have called a Five Star Hotel for your favorite watches.

Back By Popular Demand: Smart Money Clip

Steinhausen is pleased to announce the re-arrival of the most ingenious money clip in the world! The Smart Money Clip combines the ease and convenience of a money clip with a multiple card holder. Hold up to 5 cards and 30 bills with the sleek, compact, and stylish Money Clip. The innovative Money Clip provides the perfect balance of functionality and style. Impressive looks make the Smart Money Clip a conversation piece, but the dual functionality of the Smart Money Clip will have everyone asking you where they can get their own piece of monetary ingenuity. With our great prices on the ultimate piece of monetary technology, you won't need a bailout to afford this fine piece of craftsmanship. We've even added two additional colors, so the Smart Money Clip now comes in Gold, Silver, Titanium, and Black Matte!

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The Origin of Steinhausen

In Steinhausen, Switzerland, during the early 1900s, Ulrich Van-Heusen was a highly-touted watchmaker, inventor and architect laboring day after day, attempting to build the world’s first automatic calendar watch. He lived in an era in which only wealthy individuals could afford a timepiece. And they were custom-made solely for influential people who asked for one.

In 1923, Ulrich Van-Heusen had completed his first automatic calendar watch. The repercussions of this engineering feat had yet to be felt by humanity.

In 1928, after building a few of these ground-breaking timepieces for select individuals, Van-Heusen began a family watch business along with his two sons, building a variety of watches that would astonish the world, including ones with calendar displays, chronographs (i.e. precise timekeeping devices), skin-line type watches and skeleton (transparent face) watches.

Ulrich Van-Heusen named his particular brand of watch Steinhausen, after Ulrich Van-Heusen’s father’s ancestral name. It served as a reminder of his noble heritage. And soon would be associated with the most celebrated watches on earth. Van-Heusen would eventually sell Steinhausen watches to kings, army generals, czars, princes and emperors from Monte Carlo to Russia.

In an era in which pocket watches were prevalent, Ulrich Van-Heusen remained steadfast in his belief that wristwatches would eventually be a personal element people wouldn’t be able to live without. History proves he was right. Wristwatches eventually became the norm for men of every social stratum.

Van-Heusen passed on his expertise, knack for precision, watch-making experience, workmanship habits and attention to quality to his two sons. They soon began selling distinguished watches to famous retailers and jewelry boutiques around the world.

Excellence passed on to succeeding generations

In 1938, two decades after World War I, Ulrich Van-Heusen’s son, Klaus Van-Heusen, had assumed the role of proprietor of Steinhausen. He continued the tradition of building newly designed watches that would appease the most demanding consumer. And he would invent new watch technologies such as day-of-week display and scratch-resistant sapphire crystal face.

Ulrich Van-Heusen died in 1940.

In 1961, Erica Van-Heusen, granddaughter of Ulrich, at the age of 27, became the next proprietor of Steinhausen. Sales skyrocketed because of her keen business acumen. Erica Van-Heusen started assembly factories in Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea. To find rubies and sapphire crystals for Steinhausen products, she established mines in South Africa and India. Van-Heusen also developed more manufacturing sites in Switzerland, Germany and the Czech Republic.

Steinhausen Across the World

Today, Steinhausen continues to market its prestigious line of watches on three separate continents (Europe, North America, and Asia).For the finest in timepieces, Steinhausen is the answer around the world. That won’t ever change.

We did not invent time,we just perfected it.