Glashütte Original

Group

Swatch Group, since 2000.

Headquarters

Glashütte, Saxony, Germany.

Founded

1845 by lineage; the company itself was formed in 1994 from the privatised East German combine GUB.

Known for

PanoMaticLunar, Senator, SeaQ, Sixties and Seventies.

Scale

About 6,200 watches and CHF 52 million in 2025, 46th among Swiss brands. Estimate: Morgan Stanley / LuxeConsult, February 2026; no brand-level figures are published.

1845 is the year Ferdinand Adolph Lange founded watchmaking in the Saxon town of Glashütte; Glashütte Original claims it as the town’s heritage, not as its own founding. The town’s private firms were nationalised in East Germany and merged in 1951 into the state combine VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe, which made watches continuously through the socialist era. After reunification it was privatised in 1994 and renamed Glashütte Original; the Swatch Group bought it in 2000.

Sourcesglashuette-original.com