Habring²

Brand history

Founded by Maria and Richard Habring in Sulz im Wienerwald, in the Vienna Woods west of the Austrian capital. Richard Habring designed the IWC Doppelchronograph rattrapante module in the 1990s; the modern Habring² workshop produces roughly 200 watches per year, including the in-house A11 caliber family. The only Austria-based brand currently in the catalog.

Founded 2004 in Graz, Austria, by Richard Habring and Maria Kristina Habring-Kuberka. Richard Habring spent the years before founding his own brand developing movements at IWC Schaffhausen, where he led the development of the IWC in-house Pellaton winding system and several caliber families. Habring² produces roughly 100 watches per year from the Graz atelier, all using in-house movements or heavily-modified ébauches with proprietary components. The Erwin (simple time-only, in-house cal. A11s) and the Felix (jumping seconds, in-house cal. A11j) are the brand's defining pieces. The jumping-seconds mechanism: the seconds hand advances in discrete one-second steps rather than sweeping continuously. Habring² is the least-known serious watchmaker in the German-language tradition, the brand sits in a conversation with Nomos and Mühle-Glashütte, and the watches are available at prices that reflect their obscurity rather than their quality.