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A.Lange & Söhne
A Lange & Söhne doesn’t sell many watches. It doesn’t need to. Only a few thousand are produced each year, prestige pieces sold at an appropriately prestige price.
The Glashütte, Germany company is both rich in history and in a sense brand new. It was established in 1868 by Adolf Lange and his brother-in-law Adolf Schneider. Lange was a mechanical wunderkind who apprenticed to the keeper of the tower clock in the royal court of nearby Dresden, then worked in Paris, England and Switzerland. Notable customers went on to include European emperors and royalty, before the original A Lange & Söhne was nationalised and ceased to exist after Word War II. It was resurrected in 1990 and in 2000 became a subsidiary of the Swiss Richemont Group, the luxury goods company that also owns Jaeger-LeCoultre and Cartier.
Think luxury watches and your mind will more than likely deviate towards something of a Swiss persuasion. Sure, the Swiss are known worldwide for their output of exquisite timepieces that have become just as much everyday fashion accessories as they have exemplary time tellers.
But one luxury watchmaker that more than holds its own amidst the sea of the Swiss invasion is German marque A. Lange & Söhne. Founded in 1845 by one Ferdinand Adolph Lange in Glashütte, Germany – the first watchmaker to establish itself in the town, paving the way to it becoming the watchmaking capital of Deutschland – but falling victim to nationalisation in 1948, the high-end watch brand made a successful comeback in 1990.