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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.

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 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 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 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.