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Founded by Ferdinand Adolph Lange to bring watchmaking to the impoverished Erzgebirge; expropriated after WWII, refounded by Walter Lange in 1990 and now the anchor of the modern Glashütte revival.

Founded 2000 in Glashütte by Bruno Söhnle, at Dresdner Straße 14 in the former Assmann house. The first mechanical watch followed in 2008 on the BS 283 and the first automatic in 2010 on the BS 175. The Stuttgart, München and Turin in the range are model names, not places of manufacture.

Successor to GUB, the East-German state watch combine that consolidated the surviving Glashütte makers after WWII; privatised in 1994 and bought by the Swatch Group in 2000.

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.

The 19th-century Grossmann manufacture closed in 1885; the modern brand was re-established by Christine Hutter in 2008 to produce watches at the finishing standard of the pre-war Saxon makers.

The original Robert Mühle workshop supplied precision measuring instruments to the Glashütte watchmaking industry from 1869; re-established as a wristwatch maker in 1994 by Hans-Jürgen Mühle.

Founded by Roland Schwertner in the months after reunification; the brand's Bauhaus-derived design language and in-house calibres made it the most-recognised post-revival Glashütte name outside the haute end.

Originated in the pre-war Glashütte cluster as UROFA, the rohwerke (movement) supplier; the brand was rebuilt in West Germany after the war and returned to Glashütte in 2011 after reunification settled supply chains.

Founded 1893 in Glashütte by Johannes Dürrstein as Uhrenfabrik Union, on 1 January of that year. The 1893 date is not unbroken continuity: the firm was struck from the commercial register in 1936 and the name lay dormant for roughly sixty years before it was revived in 1996, bought by the Swatch Group in 2000 and separated from Glashütte Original as its own brand in 2008.

Founded 1878 in Elsfleth by Gerhard D. Wempe, on 5 May, as a jeweller rather than a watch manufacture. The company is still Hamburg-based; what sits in Glashütte is the manufacture and the chronometer testing laboratory, housed in the restored Glashütte observatory that Wempe bought in 2005 and reopened in 2006.

Founded in Pforzheim (the German 'City of Gold and Jewellery') in 1925. Laco is one of the last German brands producing authentic Flieger pilot watches to the original Luftwaffe-specification Type A and Type B designs.

Founded 1927 by Walter Storz in Hornberg, in the Black Forest, and moved to Pforzheim in 1935 to sit inside Germany’s watch-and-jewellery district. The Pforzheim factory was destroyed in February 1945 and Storz restarted production the same year in Rheinfelden, so the company has run continuously since its founding; it works today from Engelsbrand, just outside Pforzheim.

Founded by the pilot and flight-instructor Helmut Sinn in Frankfurt am Main as a maker of pilot and navigation chronographs; sold to Lothar Schmidt in 1994, who introduced the Ar-dehumidification, tegimented case-hardening, and submarine-steel technologies the brand is now known for.

Founded by Konrad Damasko in Barbing, just east of Regensburg in Bavaria; the brand’s precision-engineering background produced the patented ice-hardened submarine-steel and the in-house A26 chronograph caliber.

Founded by Erhard Junghans in Schramberg in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald); was the world’s largest clockmaker in 1903 and has produced wristwatches in the town continuously since the early 20th century. Max Bill’s wristwatch line for Junghans dates from 1961.