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Glashütte Original is a German producer of luxury watches founded in 1994 by the privatization of VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe (GUB), [1] an East German conglomerate formed in 1951 from the watch companies based in Glashütte. Glashütte Original uses its own movements, and has 10 proprietary movement innovations.
Over the years, the Swatch Group acquired various luxury watchmaking companies, including Blancpain S. A. (founded 1735, bought by Swatch in 1992), [10] Breguet S. A. (founded 1775, bought in 1999), [11] and Glashütte Original (Germany, bought in 2000). The company continued to produce watches under these names. [12]
A Patek Philippe pocket watch. This list of most expensive watches sold at auction documents the watches sold at auction worldwide for at least 1.5 million US dollars.The final price listed is the total price paid by the buyer converted to US dollars, according to the currency exchange rate at the time of auction.
Glasfabrik Lamberts was established in 1887 by Laurenz Lamberts and is managed by the fourth generation of the family to the present day. The Glashütte is the only independent glass factory in the world to produce all four types of cast glass.
[5] [6] The original A. Lange & Söhne was nationalized and ceased to exist in 1948, following the occupation by the Soviet Union after World War II. [5] [6] The current A. Lange & Söhne trademark was re-registered when Lange Uhren GmbH was founded in 1990 by Walter Lange, the great-grandson of Ferdinand Adolph Lange. [3] [5] [6]
Mühle-Glashütte S.A. was founded in 1994 by Hans-Jürgen Mühle, father of the current CEO Thilo Mühle. The Mühle family has more than 140-year history of instrument-making craft in and around the area of Glashütte.