The history of A. Lange Söhne

1845: Ferdinand Adolph Lange in Glashutte town near Germany Dresden established Saxon fine watch factory.

 

1898: Kaiser William II ordered a noble pocket watch from A. Lange & Söhne, as a gift gave to Sultan Abdul Hamid II when visited the Ottoman Empire.

 

1924: Walter Lange was born in Dresden, and he would continue the previous steps and learn watch making art.

 

1945: the last day of the world war Ⅱ, main production department of A. Lange & Söhne watch factory was destroyed.

 

1948: manufacturing factory was owned in state by the East German government. Walter Lange leaved East Germany and immigrated to West Germany. Family enterprises become the common assets; A. Lange & Söhne brand come to nothing, and A. Lange & Söhne watch making factory become a legend.

 

October 3, 1990: East Germany and West Germany was reunification. Walter Lange returned to Glashutte. December 7 of the same year, he again registered the traditional trademark A. Lange & Söhne.

 

1994: A. Lange & Söhne bobbed up like a cork, when the first A. Lange & Söhne of new century displayed in Dresden, it was the time that German rebuild the reputation of high-grade watches and clocks.

 

2000: A. Lange & Söhne joined Mont Blanc.