Lang & Heyne

Brand history

Founded by Marco Lang and Mirko Heyne, both graduates of the Glashütte watchmaking school; the workshop sits in Radeberg, in the Dresden hinterland adjacent to the Glashütte cluster.

Founded 2001 in Glashütte, Saxony, by Marco Lang, a descendant of the watchmaking dynasty that includes Ferdinand Adolph Lange. Lang & Heyne is a micro-manufacture producing fewer than 100 watches per year entirely in Glashütte; the brand meets and exceeds the Glashütte "50% in-house" rule. The brand produces four named movements in the house style. Marco, Georg, Friedrich August, and Wilhelm, in classically-proportioned 37–40mm cases with restrained silver dials and blued-steel hands, all finished to the top Glashütte standard: polished chatons, hand-engraved balance cocks, and three-quarter plates. The buyer's reality: Lang & Heyne occupies the same price tier as Glashütte Original ($12,000–$20,000 range) but the watchmaking depth is more comparable to A. Lange & Söhne; the brand is essentially unknown outside German-language horological press, which undervalues it relative to its execution.