Walter Lange

When time came homeIn 1845, Ferdinand Adolph Lange founded a watchmaking firm in Saxony’s Glashütte that became world famous for its fine, high-precision pocket watches. But a century later, in 1948, world events forced an end to the grand Glashütte watchmaking tradition. Walter Lange, the founder’s great-grandson, took flight to the West after expropriation of the company by the new East German authorities. But then came the fall of the...