Ten Amazing Facts in A. Lange and Sohne History of Watchmaking

Lange and Sohne is a watch name for more than 100 years. During this period many things has happened and it would be nice to know how this brand has been included in the world history.

1. J. C. Friedrich Gutkaes has married Iogan Friedrich Schumann’s daughter and after his death became the "mechanicus" of the royal timepiece collection, which was on display at Dresden's well-known late-baroque Zwinger. Adolph Lange married J. C. Friedrich Gutkaes’s daughter.

2. J. C. Friedrich Gutkaes, together with his apprentice and son-in-law Adolph Lange, built first digital five-minute clock for the Semper Opera in 1841.

3. In 1845, Adolph Lange set out for the poverty-stricken German town, Glashutte. There he established his manufactory with only 15 talented youngsters.

4. Adolph Lange was the first one to introduce the millimeter as the underlying unit of measurement in watch making, replacing the complicated Parisian system of lines.

5. Adolph Lange served as Glashutte mayor for 18 years. In 1895 there was erected a monument for him. He did a lot for this town. Since he came the economy of Glashutte flourished, bringing prosperity to the people.

6. Kaiser William II ordered an outstanding "A. Lange & Sohne" pocket watch in 1898. It became a gift for Sultan Abdul Hamid II when the Kaiser visited the Ottoman Empire.

7. In 1902, Emil Lange, Adolph Lange's son was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor that was made in recognition of his merits on behalf of the art of horology.

8. The outbreak of World War I crushed the market for luxury watches. Nevertheless, "A. Lange and Sohne" survived these terrible times, by the production of high-precision marine chronometers.

9. On 8 May 1945, the last day of the World War II Russian bombers hit Lange's main production workshops and more or less totally destroyed them. It took 45 years for Adolph Lange great-grandson to comeback, after the fall of Berlin wall.

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