LÖBNER is a German watch manufacturer with a history that begins in Prussia in 1862, when founder Franz Ludwig Löbner established the company under a principle that would define it for generations: "Vom Guten das Beste" — The Best of the Good. From its earliest years, LÖBNER was a pioneer in precision timekeeping technology, producing high-precision stopwatches capable of measuring time intervals to one-hundredth of a second as early as 1881, and to one-thousandth of a second by 1892.

The brand's contributions to timekeeping history are extraordinary. In 1894, LÖBNER supplied a clock system with a perpetual calendar for the German Reichstag. From the mid-1920s onward, LÖBNER became a pioneer of modern sports timekeeping — developing the world's first timekeeping system with a time printer, and deploying its electromechanical systems at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam, Lake Placid, and Berlin 1936. In the 1930s, LÖBNER documented the legendary world record of Rudolf Caracciola, who set the longest course world record in history at 432.7 km/h.

After decades of historically significant timings, the brand disappeared. Seventy-nine years later, in 2023, LÖBNER was revived — with two collections: the LÖBNER Sledge three-hand watch and the LÖBNER Steelracer chronograph. The revival is accompanied by "Vom Guten das Beste," a historically precise book on the company's history from 1862 to 1944, published in a limited edition of 200 copies in German and 200 in English.

As a 1912 commemorative publication noted: "LÖBNER created clocks that scientifically did what was expected of them, namely exactly determine the fifths, tenths, hundredths and thousandths of a second."