Wempe Celebrates Albers in New York With Watch Exhibition

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Watch and jewelry retailer Wempe celebrates the 35th day of its U.S. President Ruediger “Rudy” Albers with a peculiar accumulation of watches from Wempe’s depository postulation successful Hamburg. 

On grounds during October astatine Wempe successful New York, the celebratory enactment includes vintage Wempe timepieces, watches from the 1980s, and co-branded constricted editions.

Wempe collaborations with Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin and Chopard.

Albers started his tenure with the German-based retailer successful 1987 arsenic a maestro watchmaker astatine the Wempe store successful Hamburg and transferred to its New York determination a twelvemonth later.

Ruediger ‘Rudy’ Albers, President of Wempe U.S.

Named president of Wempe U.S. successful 2002, Albers has been instrumental successful the long-running occurrence of Wempe successful the United States. The retailer successful the U.S. earns much than 100 cardinal dollars successful yearly income and has been the company’s apical boutique worldwide for the past twenty-five years.

Inside the Wempe-operated Rolex boutique successful New York.

Under Albers’ leadership, the U.S. limb of the marque has launched an eCommerce level and has expanded its New York boutique 3 times to make its existent 5,500-square-feet abstraction connected Fifth Avenue. In addition, Albers spearheaded the opening of the archetypal Rolex stand-alone U.S. boutique successful 2012. Operated by Wempe, the store is wrong the Rolex Building successful New York, besides connected Fifth Avenue.

Wempe Vintage stainless steel, antimagnetic wristwatch with blue-green halfway gradient dial.

“Rudy is simply the bosom of Wempe New York,” says Kim-Eva Wempe, Owner and Managing Director of Wempe Jewelers. “He has the keen quality to marque anyone walking done the doorway consciousness similar household and leads his team, galore of whom person been with him for astatine slightest a decade, immoderate adjacent two, successful that aforesaid manner.”

Wempe Vintage Sea-Cup, automatic, anti-magnetic, and shock-resistant stainless alloy diving ticker with a 2nd crown to acceptable diving clip connected a diving bezel wrong of the case.

The celebratory watches connected grounds at Wempe include timepieces from Patek Philippe, Chopard, A. Lange & Söhne, Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Cartier, and Wempe.

Wempe Vintage Zeitmeister stainless alloy manual chronograph with metallic dial.

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