The development of technologies for maritime timekeeping has more than 100 years of tradition at Wempe, which has repeatedly set standards in this life-essential discipline. From the first three-pillar chronometer calibre in 1942 to today’s digital/analogue main clock with intelligent Ethernet secondary clocks, Wempe has consistently supplied highly functional solutions for professional mariners and naval applications.

When quartz timekeeping technology was invented in the 1970s, Wempe developed its first electronic main ship’s clock. This masterpiece, which seems enormously large from a contemporary point of view, transmitted impulses at single-second intervals via a network of cables to the various secondary clocks, thus assuring synchronised timekeeping throughout its small network

Nowadays, ships require a computer compartible timekeeping system. Wempe and the Chronometerwerke Hamburg produce the current acme in time measurement in the guise of Model 20100: the most modern and most convenient generation of main ship’s clocks. Controlled by microprocessors, this model serves as a highly precise time source for captains, crews and passengers on all the world’s oceans.

The outstanding status of the Wempe Chronometerwerke Hamburg is also proven by the fact that all German research vessels, luxury liners such as the MS EUROPA and MS DEUTSCHLAND, and cruise ships such as the MS HANSEATIC and ARCADIA rely on ultramodern ship’s clock technology from Wempe.