====== Lang, Gerd-Rüdiger ======
{{wst>image_r|Lang_Gerd-Rüdiger|Gerd-Rüdiger Lang, Founder of [[Chronoswiss]]}}
**Gerd-Rüdiger Lang** is a German contemporary watchmaker and founder of the watch manufacturer [[Chronoswiss]].

===== Founder and owner of Chronoswiss =====
Gerd-Rüdiger Lang was born in [[1943]] in Braunschweig, Germany. He learned the watchmaker's craft in his hometown at the watches shop Jauns from [[1958]] to [[1961]]. After two years of journeyman work at the firm Gross in Burg/Fehmarn Lang in [[1964]] moved to the stopwatch and [[chronograph]] manufacturer [[Heuer]] in [[Biel]]. During the seventies Lang also worked in other industries (participation in the film "Le Mans", timekeeping at the Olympic Games in Moscow in [[1980]] and at various Formula 1 races).

In 1980 he graduated from the Master School in Würzburg and in [[1981]] founded a special workshop for [[chronograph]]s in Munich. In addition to repairs, so-called "retro" models, that is modern mechanical [[wristwatch]]es in the design of the classical models of earlier decades, were made. Their dials adorned, next to the name of the manufacturer, also the word "Chronoswiss". The first transfer of the principle of the [[regulator]] display on wristwatches in the model [[Chronoswiss Regulateur|Régulateur]] became legendary.

In [[1983]] Lang presented his first mechanical [[chronograph]] "Chronoswiss" to the public and founded the [[Chronoswiss|eponymous watch company]].

In Summer [[2011]] Lang withdrew from the management of Chronoswiss for reasons of age. The brand was sold to an Swiss owner at the end of 2011.

===== Work as book author =====
Lang ist also known as author of specialist books on chronographs.

===== Works =====
  * Chronographen, Armbanduhren, Callwey (1992)
  * Zeitzeichen. Das Buch mit dem Tick, Chronopress (2000-2005)

===== Literature =====
  *[[Das ZEITGEFÜHL-Uhrenbuch]]; Author [[Gerd-Lothar Reschke]]; ISBN 3-938607-61-0


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