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Having succeeded in this effort, in 2000 the reinvigorated Glashütte Original was bought by the Swatch Group, the largest watch group in the world. [11] [12] Even today, due to its unique history in the watchmaking world, Glashütte Original is known for making nearly 95% of all components in-house.
Ferdinand Adolph Lange (1815–1875), watchmaker, founder of A. Lange & Söhne, Member of Saxon Landtag 1857–1875, mayor of Glashütte 1848–1866; Arthur Burkhardt (1857–1918), engineer and manufacturer
This is a list of watch manufacturers based in Germany. Note that manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname Entries with an article should also be suitable for inclusion in Category:Watch manufacturing companies of Germany. Entries which do not yet have an article may be removed if not justified for inclusion with a ...
The Mühle family has more than 140-year history of instrument-making craft in and around the area of Glashütte. The roots of the family business date back five generations - from the year 1869, when Robert Mühle founded his own company in Glashütte, manufacturing precision measuring instruments for the local watch industry and watchmaker ...
The company was founded in 1983 through the merger of ASUAG and SSIH, moving to manufacturing quartz-crystal watches to resolve the quartz crisis threatening the traditional Swiss watchmaking industry. [2] [3] [4] The Swatch Group is the largest watch company in the world and employs about 31,000 people in 50 countries. [5]
The Lange 1 watch family is to be headed by the Lange 1 Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar, with two large complications and a new type of instantaneously jumping month ring. [104] The company also issued a reworked Grand Lange 1. [105] In addition, there was a luminous Lange 1 Time Zone in white gold. [106]
Waltham Watch Company. pocket watch. Georg Friedrich Roskopf (1813–1889), German watchmaker, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Roskopf escapement. Matthäus Hipp (1813–1893), German clockmaker, Bern, electric precision pendulum clock. Edward Howard (1813–1904), American watchmaker and manufacturer, Waltham Watch Company, pocket watch.
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