The roots of the family business date back five generations - from the year 1869, when Robert Mühle founded his own company in Glashütte, manufacturing precision measuring instruments for the local watch industry and watchmaker school.

Robert Mühle was born in 1841, in Lauenstein and completed a training as toolmaker at the watch manufacturer Moritz Grossmann.

Besides this, they developed leading-edge technology, because the Glashütte factories used the new metric system of measurement, not the standard for the Swiss watchmaking typical Paris line used.

Shortly before the end of war the Soviet Air Force bombed and destroyed large parts of Glashütte and the Mühle company.

Hans Mühle founded a new company in December 1945 which manufactured dial trains for pressure and temperature measuring instruments.

The company was initially transformed in a national enterprise and in 1980 converted into the Glashütte Watchmaking Plants (VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe).

At the beginning Mühle produced professional marine chronometers, ship's timepieces and other nautical instruments such as Barometer or hygrometer.