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The modern name "Glashütte Original" is a reference back to the early days of watchmaking in the Glashütte region. In an attempt to sell inferior movements for a premium price, less renowned watchmaking areas were adding the term "System Glashütte" to their timepieces and often simulating traditional Glashütte decoration and finishing work.
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 school.
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]
[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]
www.glashuette-sachs.de Glashütte [ German pronunciation: [ˈɡlaːsˌhʏtə] ⓘ ] is a town in Saxony , Germany , known as the birthplace of the German watchmaking industry and has a population of about 7,000.
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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.
During the 2007–2008 financial crisis, Christine Hutter (who had previously held positions at Wempe, Maurice Lacroix, Glashütte Original, and A. Lange & Söhne) founded her own luxury watch brand, Moritz Grossmann, after acquiring the right to use the name of 19th century founder and director of the German School of Watchmaking, Karl Moritz Grossmann. [4]