Norrhafen Chronometric

About us

We are Norrhafen Chronometric, clockmaker, licensed by the Ministry of Chronology in the clocks sector. We keep our workshop and registered office at 41 Lime Square in Norrhafen, in The Sudmark, a town of 14,836 souls where the trains run on time and, we like to think, so does the town. We have traded for twelve years and we intend to trade for a good many more.

We build and repair clocks for households, town halls, and the sort of institution that cannot afford to be wrong about the hour. We do not chase fashion. We chase accuracy, and we have found that the two are not often the same thing.

Our founder. Sabine Wachs, an engineer born on 5 December 1960 at Kesselkirchen, established the firm on 11 October 2013. She trained as an engineer before she trained as a clockmaker, which she says explains why our cases open with a hex key rather than a hope.

Officers

• No officers are recorded beyond our founder.

Our history

1. 2013 On 11 October, the company is founded at Norrhafen. The first bench was set up in what is still the workshop at Lime Square, and the first clock out the door went, we believe, to a household two streets over.
2. 2023 On 13 September, Norrhafen Chronometric lists on the Vellmar Exchange, at Vellmar, under the ticker MFI. In the press.

What we do

Our workshop offers four lines, each licensed under the same Ministry of Chronology registration that covers everything we build. The Norrhafen Standard is our household range: mantel and wall clocks cased in local oak, regulated on our own bench before they leave the building. The Lime Square line is our public-hall work, larger movements built to run a week between windings, the sort of clock a town council orders once and does not think about again for a generation. Our Kesselkirchen range, named for our founder's birthplace, is a smaller, plainer line for lodging houses and offices, built to take knocks. And our chronometry service — inspection, regulation, and repair of clocks not of our own manufacture — keeps a good part of the bench occupied on any given week; we turn nothing away that can still be made to keep time.

The workshop is open to callers Monday to Friday, eight in the morning until six in the evening, and Saturday mornings by appointment. We do not open on the Sabbath, nor on Ministry holidays, a point on which we have never once been asked to make an exception and would not grant one if we were.

Working with us

We take on apprentices and journeymen clockmakers as the bench requires, and we keep a standing preference, as every firm in the Sudmark does, for men who have served with the Marsh Regiment; a steady hand under discipline is not a bad thing to look for in a man who will spend his working life over a mainspring. A labourer's day with us is paid at 1,426.07 marka, in line with the going rate across the town, and we have never had cause to pay less. Lodgings near the workshop run to about 501.41 marka the month, which we mention only because more than one apprentice has asked.

We are not a large house and we do not pretend to be. Anyone who joins us learns the whole trade, not a slice of it, and leaves at the end of an apprenticeship able to build a movement from the plate up.

Investors

Norrhafen Chronometric has traded on the Vellmar Exchange as MFI since 13 September 2023. Our shares closed the year at 97.82 marka on 31 December 2025. We report to shareholders in the same plain terms we use on the shop floor, and we see no reason a clockmaker's accounts should read any differently from its clocks.

Contact

Registered office as above. Encyclopedia entry: Norrhafen Chronometric.