Bart Grönefeld
Date of Birth: 1969
Location: Oldenzaal, The Netherlands
Education:
1989: Qualified watchmaker after 4 years at the Christiaan Huygens watchmaking school in the Netherlands.
1990: WOSTEP refresher course
1991:WOSTEP course on complicated watches
Experiences:
1990: Asprey in London
1991 (December): commenced at Renaud et Papi (Le Locle) to start up a new workshop for assembling complicated watches for several brands including Audemars Piguet, Franck Muller and Parmigiani. Responsible for the workshop in April
1992. Trained all new employees for many years. Workshop started with 5 watchmakers and grew in 8 years to 35 watchmakers.
1998(December): Bart and Tim started QWS Netherlands (Quality Watch Service) in The Netherlands, a company working with prestigious Swiss brands and manufactures. Quality Watch Service has 9 watchmakers.
2008: Launched the Grönefeld GTM-06 featuring a minute repeater with cathedral gongs and tourbillon.
2010: Launched the One Hertz featuring deadbeat seconds, power reserve and innovative push to set/wind function.
Tim Grönefeld
Date of Birth: 1972
Location: Oldenzaal, The Netherlands
Education:
1992: Qualified watchmaker after 4 years at Vakschool Schoonhoven watchmaking school in the Netherlands.
1993: One year engraving course.
1994: WOSTEP refresher course
Experience:
1995: Commenced at Renaud et Papi (Le Locle). Responsible for regulating and assembling the tourbillon cages and escapements.
1998(December): Bart and Tim started QWS Netherlands (Quality Watch Service) in The Netherlands, a company working with prestigious Swiss brands and manufactures. Quality Watch Service has 9 watchmakers.
2008: Launched the Grönefeld GTM-06 featuring a minute repeater with cathedral gongs and tourbillon.
2010: Launched the One Hertz featuring deadbeat seconds, power reserve and innovative push to set/wind function.
Trivia:
We both have a family with young children. In our spare time we try to spend as much time with them. In the very small time which is left we'd like to go out for a nice meal and a drink with friends. Also, we used to ride motorcycles, but after Bart had an accident we both decided to sell our bikes and buy together a nice car. It had to replace the sensation of a motorcycle in a safer way. We chose an AC Cobra with 450 bhp. The only problem is to find the time to drive. I believe we've make about 300 miles a year.
