Lang & Heyne is a manufacturer of luxury wristwatches based in Dresden, Germany.[2][3]
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| Industry | Watches |
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| Founded | 2001 |
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| Headquarters | , Germany |
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| Products | Watches and timepieces |
Number of employees | 35[1] |
| Website | www |
History
editLang & Heyne was founded in Dresden in 2001 by Marco Lang and Mirko Heyne.[4] Heyne left the company in 2002 and later joined Nomos Glashütte.[4] Marco Lang continued to lead the company and, in 2005, became a member of the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants.[5]
Marco Lang later sold a majority stake in Lang & Heyne to Prof. Dr. Ulrich L. Rohde, whom Phillips described as the son of one of the co-founders of Rohde & Schwarz.[4] In 2013, Lang and Rohde, together with two other shareholders, founded the Tempus Arte Group; Lang contributed the Lang & Heyne manufacture to the group, while Uhren-Werke-Dresden was established as a subsidiary movement manufacturer.[6]
Lang headed Lang & Heyne until 2018 and left the company in 2019 to establish a new watchmaking workshop under his own name.[5][4] The transition was supported by Jens Schneider, who had previously worked with Lang & Heyne as a consultant and later became the company's director of development.[4]
Lang & Heyne is part of the Tempus Arte Group, which also includes STOWA and Uhren-Werke-Dresden.[7] Since 1 July 2025, Dr.-Ing. Daniel T. Roy has served as CEO of the Tempus Arte Group, forming its management together with Alexander Gutierrez-Diaz.[7]
Models
editCurrent models as of 2015 include Augustus, Köning Johann, and Friedrich August I.[8] The names are all chosen from the Fürstenzug, a large 19th-century mural in Dresden depicting rulers of Saxony, which Lang personally visits on completion of each design.[citation needed]
Watches
editLang & Heyne produces mechanical wristwatches. The company's model names often refer to historical rulers of Saxony, a naming practice associated with the Fürstenzug in Dresden, a mural depicting Saxon rulers.[9]
One of the company's best-known models is the Georg, introduced in 2017 as Lang & Heyne's first rectangular wristwatch. It is named after George, Duke of Saxony, also known as George the Bearded. The model uses the manually wound Caliber VIII and has been described by Phillips as arguably the most popular wristwatch in the company's more traditional line.[4]
Other models have included Friedrich August, König Johann, Moritz, Anton and Hektor.[10]
See also
editFurther reading
edit- Brückner, Michael (2009). Exzellenz in der Nische: Ateliers und Manufakturen im Portrait. EWK Verlag. ISBN 3938175524.
References
edit- ↑ Clerizo, Michael (27 November 2014). "Saxony Ticks All The Boxes". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ↑ Braun, Peter (2009), Wristwatch Annual 2010. Abbeville Press.
- ↑ Clerizo, Michael (2009). Masters of Contemporary Watchmaking. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500514852.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Indie Insider: How Germany's Lang & Heyne Turned The Page". Phillips. 9 December 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2026.
- 1 2 "Marco Lang". Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants. Retrieved 2 June 2026.
- ↑ "Uhren-Werke-Dresden: Mechanische Uhrwerke aus Sachsen". WatchTime. 26 December 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2026.
- 1 2 "Tempus Arte unter neuer Führung". GZ Online. 19 August 2025. Retrieved 2 June 2026.
- ↑ "THE LOOK: the collection of the watch manufacture Lang and Heyne". lang-und-heyne.de. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ↑ "Lang & Heyne". A Collected Man. Retrieved 2 June 2026.
- ↑ "Kollektion". Lang & Heyne. Retrieved 2 June 2026.