Brands / A. Lange & Söhne
A. Lange & Söhne
- Group
- Richemont, since 2000.
- Headquarters
- Glashütte, Saxony, Germany.
- Founded
- 1845, by Ferdinand Adolph Lange in Glashütte; refounded in 1990 by Walter Lange and Günter Blümlein.
- Known for
- Lange 1 (1994), Datograph, Zeitwerk, Saxonia, Odysseus.
- Scale
- About 5,200 watches and CHF 240 million in 2025, 25th among Swiss brands. Estimate: Morgan Stanley / LuxeConsult, February 2026; no brand-level figures are published.
1845 is the founding of Ferdinand Adolph Lange’s workshop in Glashütte, Saxony. The factory was bombed on the last day of the war in 1945 and the firm was expropriated by the East German authorities in 1948 and merged into the state combine in 1951, so the Lange name disappeared for more than forty years. Walter Lange re-founded the company on 7 December 1990 with Günter Blümlein’s LMH group and presented the first new watches in 1994; Richemont acquired it in 2000.
Sourcesalange-soehne.com
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Milestones from A. Lange & Söhne
1845Watchmaking comes to GlashütteOn 7 December 1845 Ferdinand Adolph Lange took on fifteen apprentices in Glashütte with a loan from the Saxon state, and a worked-out mining town became the centre of German watchmaking.1994The first big date wristwatchOn 24 October 1994, in the Dresden Residenzschloss, A. Lange & Söhne showed the Lange 1 with an outsize date in two windows, the first series-made wristwatch with a two-disc big date, and a quotation of the opera clock of 1841.