A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1815

Born in 1815, Ferdinand Adolph Lange received a rigorous education at the hands of nurses and governesses. At 15 he became a student at the Saxon Technical school in Dresden. Following that, he would pursue training under Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes, Sr, royal clockmaker to the King of Saxony.  In 1846 he and his brother-in-law would form A. Lange & Söhne on a loan of 7,820 thalers from the Saxon court. Lange took what he learned at the polytechnic school in Dresden and adapted it to his company. His use of precision tools and instruments like his own invention, the zehntelmaß rudimentary calipers, allowed Lange’s manufacture to attain a level of precision that was heretofore unknown in mass-produced watches. After his death in 1878, his sons Richard and Emil would carry on his legacy. However, the Soviet occupation of East Germany at the end of the Second World War saw an end to A. Lange & Söhne. But after Reunification in the 1990s, the manufacture would make its trium