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To assert, the >Münsterland< a small region in the north of
Germany, is an important center of German watchmaking, like Glashuette,
would really be an exaggeration, but between the northsea and the alpes,
many very ambitioned watchmakers are settled today.
So, also in Münster, the capitol of the Münsterland.
Here, Manfred Schneider is working in his atelier, creating watches
of his own performance, not comparable with the products of other watchmakers
in his country.
It was more accidental as wanted , that Manfred Schneider decided to
become watchmaker; in a time, where those specialists spent most time
of a day changing batteries of Quarz-watches.
But in the middle of the 80th people became attentive, old traditions
came back to their rights.
Also Manfred Schneider was influenced by the >mechanical-tic<
so, after his master examination, he opened a watch-workshop in his
hometown Hiltrup, near Münster.
He started doing all kinds of watchrepair and soon after, people new,
there is an experienced watchmaker, who can repair mechanical watches
and clocks.
All this gave him the conviction, it was time for creating his own
watchdesign.
From this moment, he build his own , typical MSC watches.
This started in 1998 with his first watch, named <MONDEGO> a
limited edition of 50 units.
The movement of this watch was the old UNITAS 6497 out of the 70th
which Manfred Schneider gave a beautiful finish, polished, gold plated
and supplied with a blue heated screws.
Until today the UNITAS still has a special place in his watch production,
more watches with this movement were build in the past and will be
in the future.
Meanwhile the MSC collection embraces 15 different types of watches,exclusive
with mechanical movements of the swiss ETA, manual winding, or automatic.
Still today, Manfred Schneider is doing special watch finishing for
special watch lovers, but not at least, it is the good basic quality
and the fair price, what makes MSC a successful brand.
Manfred Schneider is one of the specialists, who give watchmaking in
Germany a place for high performance in the old traditional watchmaker
handicraft.
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