
About us
ZEITAUKTION is your specialized luxury watch dealer! Our expertise is the purchase, refurbishment, and sale of high-quality Watches from all major manufacturers and manufactories. In recent years, we have developed into one of the largest watch workshops and one of the highest-grossing providers of used luxury Watches with vision.
2002
Foundation
45
Employees
35.000
International Customers
over 55,000
International Sold Watches

Team ZEITAUKTION
Professional work. Family atmosphere.
ZEITAUKTION works like clockwork: from purchasing, to the repair and refurbishment of luxury watches, to the development of detailed descriptions for our sales platforms, photography, customer service, all the way to back office and accounting. Everything goes hand in hand. Our employees are together on site. Everyone knows everyone here and all tasks are passed from hand to hand in a solution-oriented manner. This awareness of individual and collective work is reflected in all results. The love for detail accompanies every step with us.

Mindfulness & Respect
Quality is non-negotiable. In no dimension.
Our team is quality. Where the working atmosphere serves personal development, an atmosphere of growth arises. This continuously improves the performance of each employee. Know-how is exchanged. Certified colleagues with decades of professional experience pass on their knowledge. Youth enlivens and connects. ZEITAUKTION sees itself in each of its employees. Through this commitment, we manage to restore masterpieces to their former glory.

Naming
Why Zeitauktion?
For over 20 years owner-managed and with the highest demand for perfection, Zeitauktion is one of the first addresses for used Watches. We have made it our mission to restore the beauty and functionality of old masterpieces and to give them a new and long life. We share our customers' passion for aesthetic pleasure and precise functionality. With over 55,000 Watches sold, we are proud to bring sustainable and value-preserving joy to the world.

Dipl. Inf. Stephan Sohn
Founder, shareholder and managing director of ZEITAUKTION GmbH
The father's pocket watch
The first Watch that fascinates a boy is often the father's Watch. For me, it was a golden A. Lange and Söhne pocket Watch, which my great-grandfather received as an honorary citizen from the city of Annaberg in 1901. The Watch laid the foundation for my fascination with Watches. However, it was not just the Watch and mechanics that excited me, but also the value and history of such a pocket Watch. After many years, from this childhood passion for Watches, ZEITAUKTION GmbH was born.

Dipl. Inf. Sören Thorwirth
Managing Director of ZEITAUKTION GmbH
Tradition meets modernity
A red thread runs through my life, to which I voluntarily and involuntarily always return. "All great and noble things are of a simpler kind." (Gottfried Keller).
From my early youth until today, it has been especially classical music that has taught me great intangible value through compositions from the early Renaissance to modern times, through vocal and instrumental works by well-known and forgotten composers. It has a direct access to the subconscious and the usually well-encapsulated inner self and does not have to be complicated and "heavy."
Studying Technical Computer Science quickly made me realize that it is the simple code that solves a problem, stabilizes the process, and avoids security gaps, and that simplicity is rarely found on the first try but usually lurks grinning around the corner after repeatedly questioning.
Eventually, through my later discovered passion for wood, old building fabric, and half-timbered houses, I gained access to another fascinating simplicity of nature, which is so simple in itself and yet produces such large stable trees with beautiful wood grains.
The common thread runs through Zeitauktion - it brought me here through "harmony and concord" among the employees, through "binary search trees" to an extremely "stable and stylishly designed" IT and company structure.
It wasn't always easy, but now it is simple.