Maison 48 of 100 · Haute Horology
A. Lange & Söhne
The reading
German watchmaking’s cathedral. Outsize date, three-quarter plate, hand-engraved balance cock. Restarted in 1990 after the GDR freeze and immediately reclaimed a seat next to Patek. Proof that horology is not a Swiss monopoly.
The house
- Origin
- Germany
- Founded
- 1845
- Atelier
- Haute Horology
- Ownership
- Richemont
- Signature
- Lange 1 / Datograph
- Register note
- Glashütte finishing This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Where it sits in this register
Within the register it is the 8th of the eighteen houses filed under Haute Horology. Against the whole register by founding year it comes 18th of a hundred. This is one of the four maisons the register files to Germany — the same number it files to Japan, and the sixth-largest national group in it. Richemont holds nine of the hundred, this one among them: Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Piaget, Buccellati, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and two more. It is the only Germany house in this register filed under Haute Horology.