Manufacturer
A. Lange & Söhne
Also recorded as: A.Lange & Söhne · Lange & Söhne · A. Lange & Sohne · Ferdinand Adolph Lange
Founder house of Glashütte watchmaking, refounded after German reunification.
Ferdinand Adolph Lange, trained in Dresden and Paris, founded his workshop in Glashütte in 1845 with state support to create employment in the Ore Mountains. He introduced the metric system to watchmaking and the three-quarter plate, and the town grew into Germany's watchmaking centre.
The factory was bombed in May 1945 and expropriated in 1948 into VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe. Walter Lange, the founder's great-grandson, refounded the firm with Günter Blümlein in 1990; the Lange 1 and Datograph followed in 1994 and 1999.
- Country
- Germany
- City / centre
- Glashütte, Saxony
- Founded
- 1845
- Status
- Active (refounded 1990; Richemont since 2000)
- Key people
- Ferdinand Adolph Lange (1815–1875); Walter Lange (1924–2017); Günter Blümlein
Innovations & specialities
- Three-quarter plate
- Metric measurement in watchmaking
- Outsize date (Lange 1, 1994)
Works by A. Lange & Söhne in the catalogue
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Pocket Watches · circa 1867
A.Lange & Söhne pocket watch, circa 1867
Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva
Pocket Watches · circa 1900
A.Lange & Söhne pocket watch, circa 1900
Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva
Wristwatches · circa 2000
A.Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph, ref. 414.026, circa 2000
Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva
Wristwatches · circa 2005
A.Lange & Söhne Datograph Flyback, ref. LSLS4052AF, circa 2005
Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva
Wristwatches · circa 2018
A.Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk, ref. 140.029, circa 2018
Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva
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