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German watchmaker and watch entrepreneur

Walter Lange, the son of Rudolf Lange and great-grandson of the famous founder Ferdinand Adolph Lange, was born in 1924. According to the family tradition, he completed a training as master watchmaker in Karlstein and Glashütte. 1942, at the age of 18, he was called for military service. Because of becoming severely wounded on May 7, 1945, Lange returned to Glashütte and there, a few hours before the war ceasefire, was forced to witness the almost complete destruction of the main building of the manufacture by bombs.

Walter Lange was obliged to labor service in uranium mining, but eluded this arbitrariness by fleeing to West Germany, where, together with his brother Ferdinand Adolf, he started the experiment to rebuild the company A. Lange & Söhne in Pforzheim under the traditional name “Original Lange Uhr” …

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