Often understated, elegant designs fitted with complex yet superbly finished movements, you can spot them amongst their Swiss counterparts quite easily. One of those German brands is Lang & Heyne, based in Dresden, which last year has introduced its rectangular watch called Georg.
Marco Lang, the driving force behind the Lang & Heyne Manufacture, found his way into watchmaking through his father’s profession. A fifth-generation watchmaker, Marco Lang started out as an apprentice precision engineer in Glashütte.
Ever since the first collection was introduced, some seventeen years ago, the brand has embodied the Saxon watchmaking spirit to the fullest. Extremely elegant, clean and classical designs, highly refined and impeccably finished movements, sometimes with a little twist (like a movement with an ivory mainplate), but never straying from the original intention.
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