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» A. LANGE & SÖHNE continues to offer apprenticeships
Six young men and women signed their apprenticeship contracts with Lange Uhren GmbH on 4 February 2010[…] … At the Lange watchmaking school they will be the 14th year in sequence and start their training in August 2010[…]
» Rabea Sethmacher wins Swiss competition for young watchmakers
The original and functional stopseconds design of Lange trainee Rabea Sethmacher (22) came away with first prize in the Swiss competition for young watchmakers, the "Concours de l’Institut d’Horlogerie Cartier 2011" (IHC) on 7 May 2011 in Neuchâtel[…] … And another Lange trainee Fanny Rühle won fourth place with a stop-seconds mechanism in the form of a broken heart[…] … With the first prize and two out of the top ten places, trainees from the Lange Watchmaking School have enjoyed remarkable success in the most important Swiss competition for young watchmakers[…] … Already last year Lange CEO Wilhelm Schmid sees in this outstanding performance a positive affirmation of the quality of watchmaker training at Lange: "We are delighted that the skills and creativity of our apprentices receive the highest recognition also abroad[…] … Six Lange trainees were among the 90 entrants faced with the challenge of constructing and realising a system within 32 hours that would pause the balance when setting the watch[…]
» In the Footsteps of Ferdinand A. Lange
Lange during his years of travel[…] … From 1837 to 1841 they led him to the centres of precision watchmaking at the time: London, Paris and Switzerland[…] … Lange & Söhne is starting the project „F[…] … Lange Scholarship & Watchmaking Excellence Award”, a programme of further training for talented young watchmakers from all over the world, which culminates in a competition with a prize of Euro 10,000[…] … It offers talented young watchmakers the opportunity to collect a wide range of impressions and become acquainted with Lange’s current understanding of precision watchmaking[…] … Eight young watchmakers were selected In May Lange presented the project to 30 leading watchmaking schools from all over the world and invited them to put forward their best students[…] … Lange[…] … Lange & Söhne[…] … Exciting finishing and installation workshops in the Lange Watchmaking School imparted traditional decorating techniques such as perlage of a three-quarter movement plate and polishing gold chatons or special features typical of the brand such as the second assembly of a Lange calibre[…] … Jury of experts On the last day of their stay in Saxony Katja König, the head of the Lange Watchmaking School, presented the eight candidates with their task for the competition: the participants have three months after the trip to build a fully operational equation of time indication[…] … The equation of the time is one of the classic watchmaking complications[…] … The prize money is earmarked for further watchmaking studies[…]
» Inauguration of the the A. Lange & Söhne Park in Glashütte
Lange by 15 apprentices of the company’s own watchmaker school was the highlight of a ceremony at which Lange Uhren GmbH inaugurated the A[…] … Lange & Söhne Park in Glashütte on 15 July[…] … With this, the company pays tribute to the founder of Germany’s fine watchmaking industry, who opened the first watchmaker workshop in the region in 1845 with 15 apprentices[…] … Also among the more than one hundred guests was his great grandson Walter Lange, who has carried on the family tradition since reunification, as well as the Vice President of the Saxon State Parliament, Andrea Dombois[…] … A current example is the tourist guide system for Glashütte, recently initiated by Lange, which guides visitors to the sights of the city[…] … Lange is the work of the Swiss sculptor, Beat Künzler[…] … Lange & Söhne is opening the doors to its manufactory and inviting the public to get acquainted with precision watchmaking in many different ways[…]
» Swiss Prize for up-and-coming watchmakers from A. Lange & Söhne
On 29 May in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the “striking mechanism” for a pocket watch by Janina Thiele was awarded the first prize of the Swiss watchmaking competition, “Concours Institut Horlogerie Cartier 2010” (IHC)[…] … Patrick Ritschel and Eric Geissler, two further apprentices from Lange, came fifth and sixth[…] … And the Lange watchmaker school is the sole German training school permitted to compete against the Swiss[…]
» Young Watchmakers follow in the footsteps of Ferdinand A. Lange
In 2008 he passed his final examinations at the Lange Watchmaking School with flying colours[…] … The Lange Watchmaking School has been in existence since 1997, and has so far produced 66 graduates[…] … Once a year Lange invites the most promising training applicants to an assessment centre in the manufacture[…] … After several training phases in the manufactory, he went on to assemble chronograph movements for the DOUBLE SPLIT and later the LANGE 31[…] … The 24-year-old Helbig is proud of the fact that he is now permitted to assemble the most complicated Lange watch[…] … Lange founded his watch manufactory in Glashütte on 7 December 1845, he initially trained 15 young men[…] … As did his great-grandson Walter Lange who, 145 years to the day after the first manufactory was set up, continued the inheritance of his forefathers[…] … Now they are part of the Lange tradition[…]
» Lange customers patronises junior watchmakers in Glashuette
The Lange Owners Group (LOG) is an exclusive circle of Lange customers from all over the world, who are in permanent contact via the internet[…] … They have taken a keen interest in the development of the Lange manufacture for years[…] … On the occasion of a visit to Glashütte in March 2009, a donation for supporting the training of junior watch-makers was presented to the company founder Walter Lange by some members[…] … After that the Lange Watchmaking School offered the second „LOG-award“ to all apprentices[…] … They have spent their freetime in the past few weeks with pondering, drawing, calculating and noting down their ideas in order to design the ‘Lange watch of the future’[…] … “The new design should in essence be a reflection of the Lange philosophy and carry it forward into the future“, says Katja König in explaining the purpose of the competition[…] … The members of the jury, consisting of Lange specialists, technolo-gists and construction engineers, were thrilled by the large number of exciting and intelligent ideas[…] … Eric Geißler fascinated the jury with a new design version of the classic LANGE 1 model and took first prize[…] … His visionary design, the LANGE „Lunar Orbit“, is a lady’s watch with a tonneau shaped case, a moon phase display, the typical Lange outsize date and a display of the power reserve[…] … „It was a challenge for me, to accomodate all the typical characteristics of a LANGE 1 in a tonneau-case” the 21 year old apprentice explains[…] … The former apprentice now works in the final assembly workshop of Lange[…]
» A. Lange & Söhne takes on the 500th employee
19-year-old Nadine Görgl starts work today for Lange Uhren GmbH, making her the 500th employee to be taken on by the company[…] … She also did her watchmaking apprenticeship in Glashütte and will be working in the final adjustment section of this traditional manufactory[…] … She starts work for the exclusive watch brand from Saxony along with eleven other talented young watchmakers, of which seven are graduates of the company's in-house Watchmaking School[…] … When Walter Lange, the great grandson of founder Ferdinand Adolph Lange, took on the legacy of his ancestors in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall and more than four decades of forced inactivity, he possibly imagined that the company might one day end up employing a workforce of a hundred or so[…] … Now, 18 years later, Lange CEO Fabian Krone is delighted to have five times this number of employees: ”Because of the growing global demand for the timepieces created by A[…] … Lange & Söhne, we expect the need for highly qualified staff to remain over the coming years[…] … ” With the start of work this year on the construction of a further production building, Lange is in an ideal position for this increase in personnel[…] … Around half of the more than 1,000 people employed in the Glashütte watch industry today work for Lange[…] … The company has made a major contribution towards establishing this small town in the Ore Mountains region of Saxony as an international centre of precision watchmaking[…] … As the largest employer in the area, Lange has a significant role in the future of the town by training the next generation of watchmakers[…] … So far more than 50 watchmaking students have successfully completed their 3-year course in the Watchmaking School at the Original Lange Headquarters[…] … Currently 25 young men and women are learning the profession of watchmaking at Lange[…]
» Ten successful years of apprenticeship training and new apprentices at Lange
Twelve young men and women today begin their watchmaking apprenticeship at this traditional manufactory for exclusive mechanical timepieces in Saxony[…] … After a warm welcome to the inhouse Watchmaking School from Lange’s Head of the Manufactory Tino Bobe and their future training supervisors, the new apprentices received their tools and the characteristic white watchmaker's smock[…] … Of the nearly fifty young people to complete their apprenticeships since the company opened its own watchmaking school exactly ten years ago, almost all have found a permanent position at Lange[…] … As from the late summer of 2007 a total of 34 trainees will get their initiation into the basics of the art of watchmaking and toolmaking at the Lange Watchmaking School which offers state-of-the-art facilities[…] … Founded in 1997, the school is situated in the historic Lange headquarters and provides training that meets the high standards demanded by the manufactory[…] … In addition to the practical training at Lange, the three-year apprenticeship also incorporates theoretical instruction at the Glashütte-based Watches and Precision Engineering branch of the nearby Dippoldiswalde Vocational School[…] … The course also includes studies abroad at the renowned watchmaking schools of Ringsted (Denmark) and Karlstein (Austria)[…]