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 The German A. Lange & Söhne watch manufacture was founded in 1845 in a small Saxon town of Glashütte. Watchmaking had been successfully developing in Saxony before the Second World War started. In 1948 the post-war Soviet administration expropriated properties of many German watch manufactures, including A. Lange & Söhne. The bygone glory of German watch companies was restored only after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Germany's unification. In December 1990 the new company – Lange Uhren GmbH was created in Glashütte. The brand has been awarded over 100 national and international prizes since its restoration.
The company was awarded 2 prizes at «The best watches in the world - Golden Balance 2008» competition: “Lange31” watch was rewarded the “E” category prize – “watches, that cost over 25000 Euro” and the Saxonia Automatik watch – in the “D” category – “watches, that cost less, than 25000 Euro”.
In 2009 readers of the “Welt am Sonntag” newspaper and of the popular “Armbanduhren” magazine declared the A. Lange & Söhne “Cabaret Tourbillon” model the best wrist watch of the year. The same year the German “Mytime Magazine”, focused on female audience, awarded A. Lange & Söhne company the first prize in the “Extravagance” nomination for the Little Lange 1 “Soiree” watch model production, as a result of the readers' voting. Readers of the “Uhren-Magazin” watch magazine and of the weekly “Focus” magazine, together with the multiple “Focus-ONLINE” internet readers, confirmed A. Lange & Söhne watches' cachet, declaring them the best and the  most sustainable watches. In 2009 Lange Zeitwerk watches were declared the best watches in the “Complicated mechanics” nomination by the jury's unanimous decision at the MunichTime high watchmaking art exhibition in Munich.
.jpg "Little Lange 1 «Soiree»") A. Lange & Söhne picked up 2 awards at the Vienna exhibition: the new model from the “1815” collection got the first prize in the “classic elegance” nomination and the Lange Zeitwerk model was awarded the second place in the “Complicated mechanics” nomination. The same year the Lange Zeitwerk watch got the first prize in the “L'Aiguille d'Or” nomination (“The Gold Hand”) at Grand Prix d'Horlogerie in Geneva. A. Lange & Söhne is the first non-Swiss company to be awarded the leading prize in the Swiss watchmaking industry. The skillful German watchmakers combined traditional hands indication (in the form of a seconds dial) with digital time indication in the Lange Zeitwerk model.
In September 2009 A. Lange & Söhne was declared the first among German luxe-class brands, leaving behind such brands, as Mercedes, Porsche and BMW. During the same year the company got some awards in Germany, Mexico, Bahrain, Japan and Singapore.
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