Behind the scenes Archive

From freelance media designer to award-winning art director.

Jens lives with his husband and mother-in-law in the family-friendly district of Münster-Gievenbeck. The Münster resident by choice has left his home in the Harz mountains of Lower Saxony and the intermediate stations of Marburg and Hanover behind him and has now been living in our beautiful university city for a whole decade. Jens is rather a quiet contemporary and therefore we are not surprised that he also shares his life with five cats. When he's not indulging his cooking and baking passions in his spare time, he finds his daily dose of relaxation by gaming on a variety of consoles.

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Jens and MeisterSinger met in the winter of 2011 when our managing director was looking for someone to teach him how to use a design programme. At the beginning of 2012, Jens then worked permanently for MeisterSingers as a freelancer. After six years of freelance work, we employed him full-time in communication and product design and are happy about it every day. As art director, Jens is now responsible for all graphic design and has hit the big time with his first own clock design (The Astroscope). From magazine ads to advertising posters to packaging design, Jens is our all-round designer.

Jens on his work at Your MeisterSingers:

"If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would one day receive an award for designing my own watch, I would probably have laughed at that person. Working at Your MeisterSingers has allowed me to grow personally and professionally and has influenced me positively on different levels. In any case, it never gets boring and it remains varied. I like being here and am happy to be able to help shape the future of MeisterSingers. In the truest sense of the word.

Our service angel

In January, Jelka had her 10th MeisterSinger anniversary. Today we can hardly imagine how it could have been without her. Anyone who reads the MeisterSinger presentations carefully will realise by now at the latest that our employees are very close to the company and like to put down their roots with us in the long term. It is therefore not surprising that Jelka became a mother twice duringnher time with us and then returned to us, fortunately. She enjoys spending time with her large family or friends, keeping fit with running and - how could it be otherwise - a team sport: handball. She never gets bored, because there is always enough to do around the house and in her own garden.

Space in the factory

Jelka joined MeisterSinger more than 10 years ago - on the recommendation of her friend and colleague Bianca. From the very beginning, she declared the service to be her heart's project and thus made it what it is today. Before, no one was really responsible for this important area. Whether repairs or complaints, whether procuring spare parts or looking after internal and external workshops; it wouldn't work without Jelka with her talent for dealing with people. She is one of those people who always keeps an overview, even in the most stressful times.

Jelka about her work at MeisterSinger

I am 100% behind MeisterSinger and our products. I really enjoy my job here, which is not least due to the good working atmosphere and the team spirit. But our customers, who are usually very pleasant, don't make it difficult for me to like my work either. That's why I also really enjoy customer contact with the end customer.

Our Münster "U(h)rgestein"

Bianca rides her leeze to work in all weathers - leeze and malochen are words from Münster's masematte (a small linguistic peculiarity of the cathedral city). As a special language, the regional sociolect is deeply rooted in its inhabitants and because Bianca has her roots here, she comes and goes to work with her leeze and not by bicycle in High German. Bianca always means the typical Münster down-to-earthness. She is a very level-headed colleague and that's why we consider ourselves lucky that after 15 years in the furniture and children's furniture industry, she was looking for something new. Eventually, her path led to MeisterSinger, where she has been an integral part of the team for 10 years now. A small fact on the side: our colleague had applied on her own initiative at the time, but there was no vacancy at MeisterSinger at that time. A few months later, the situation looked different and MeisterSinger sent her an invitation for an interview. In the end, what belongs together came together and we are very happy about it.

Place in the movement

Bianca is responsible for the support and order processing of German and Austrian customers. She is our specialist for internal sales; in close cooperation with the field service, she looks after the specialist dealers in Germany and Austria. Bianca is not only the most important interface between inside and outside, she can do a lot more: whether it's processing orders in our online shop, or working for our brand at customer events for dealers - she is a real all-rounder and always reliable. She is also responsible for organising international sales meetings with the relevant partners and organising appointments at Baselworld. She is our organisational talent. Bianca about her work at MeisterSinger: "Even after 10 years, I still enjoy working in the company every day. After all this time, very nice and cordial contacts have developed with the specialist dealers, with many nice telephone calls. It was always exciting to get to know each other in person at trade fairs, when you got to know each other's voices on the phone."

Number 1 on the MeisterSinger Bridge

Nico is our man of the first hour and a real family man. The married father of two children shares his life with two cats and a dog in addition to his family. Nico has family and social values in his blood, so it was a natural choice for him to focus his professional career on the social sector in the first place, with training and studies. It's just good for us that Nico changed his professional orientation after his studies - after all, he completed a commercial apprenticeship after gaining initial experience in the furniture retail trade. You need to have that much stamina.

In his free time, Nico enjoys endurance sports. He boxes and keeps fit, but because he also needs to rest from time to time, he regularly goes out into nature for long walks with the dog at his side. When he is not playing football, he enjoys soul music from the 60s and 70s. A very versatile person.

Place in the movement

In 2005 Nico became the first permanent employee of MeisterSinger. He is our specialist for order processing and logistics. But Nico can do even more: he is someone who is always trying to improve old structures, build new ones and solve problems - a real doer. Because he is involved from the very beginning, he certainly has the best overview and is as deeply involved in the MeisterSinger matter as hardly anyone else.

Nico about his work at MeisterSinger

"Before the interview at MeisterSinger, I said to my wife: It's probably one of those small, young "startup watch brands" that a guy sets up from his flat and a friend of his does the bookkeeping. And that is exactly how it was. In the beginning there were three of us. But MeisterSinger grew fast, everything grew bigger from year to year. The premises, the number of employees, the production quantities, the turnover and of course the problems associated with it.

And this is exactly what I still enjoy doing in my work to this day: getting problems out of the way, creating new structures in the constant change of time and watching the company grow."

Dear Readers,

A pleasant wind of change blows through the offices of MeisterSinger. With this article we would therefore like to invite you on a short journey. Anyone who has subscribed to our newsletter or follows us in social networks will have noticed that we want to capture our external impact. With this survey we also started an internal excursion into an exciting future and we invite you to accompany us on this journey.

It's time for more MeisterSinger: You can expect exciting employee interviews, interesting insider information and stories worth reading from the everyday work of the MeisterSinger team. We will be providing all kinds of background information around the clock for watch enthusiasts with a passion for technology and design.

We will also give the necessary space to the perception of time and more philosophical topics. In the future there will be more of us to see - more than our award-winning watches. We want to show which soul MeisterSinger has within him, how much heart is put into the development of new timepieces. We want to show how we tick and what makes the whole MeisterSinger work.

'You cannot look into the future, but you can lay the foundation for something in the future - because you can build the future.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

So there will be a lot going on in the blog as well as in the social networks and you, dear watch enthusiasts, are an essential part of our vision of the future. You are the foundation stones on which we are building. More from us also means that you will have many more opportunities to contribute ideas and suggestions about where our journey together could lead. Your comments in social networks, their interaction and personal feedback, are the foundation of our future presence.

It is time for change and we look forward to all that comes.

Your MeisterSinger team.

Dear Readers,

We will also give the necessary space to the perception of time and more philosophical topics. In the future there will be more of us to see - more than our award-winning watches. We want to show which soul MeisterSinger has within, how much heart is put into the development of new timepieces. We want to show how we tick and what makes the whole MeisterSinger work.

It is time for change and we look forward to all that comes.

Your MeisterSinger team.

'You cannot look into the future, but you can lay the foundation for something in the future - because you can build the future.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry