n turn, Walter Lange was a descendant of Ferdinand-Adolf and the founder of A.Lange & Söhne in its current form. When communist East Germany forced the Lange family to leave their homes and move west in 1948, the then young Walter did not even consider abandoning the family tradition and he vowed to restore the watchmaking craft made-in-Glashütte in true style. The big moment came almost exactly 24 years ago – on December 7, 1990 Walter Lange established A.Lange & Söhne, following by intense development of the company and its watches. The culmination took place 4 years later. On October 24, 1994, Lange proudly presented four premiere models in the Dresden Castle – women’s Arcadia and men’s Tourbillon „Pour Le Merite”, Saxonia and Lange 1. The last model is especially important in the light of the remainder of this text.