Glashütte Original
Glasütter Uhrenbetrieb GmbH is a watch manufacturer in Glasütte, Saxony. The company's best-known brand is Glasütte Original. The company has been part of the Swiss Swatch Group since 2000.
The company was founded in 1845 by Ferdinand Adolph Lange in the Saxon Müglitztal. He responded to a call from the Royal Saxon government. He received 7,000 thalers for financing and thus began training the first watchmakers. Despite initial difficulties, from 1875 onwards the precision engineering and watchmaking industry became the economic backbone of the town of Glashütte.
After the Soviet occupying forces dismantled all of the production facilities at the end of the Second World War, the company had various names. It was not until 1994 that Glasütter Uhrenbetrieb GmbH was privatized by selling it to Heinz W. Pfeifer and Alfred Wallner, and since then it has used the brand name Glasütte Original . The product range was then redesigned and the quality of the cases was increased. For example, in 2000 the company launched a new collection, the PanoRetroGraph. This column wheel chronograph has the manufacture movement Caliber 60 and won the Watch of the Year award in 2001.
Glasütte Original watches are unmistakable thanks to the numbering milled into the underside of their cases. This not only serves as theft protection, but also makes each timepiece a unique piece.
