A. Lange & Söhne is owned by Richemont (Switzerland, SIX: CFR), which acquired the brand on 1 July 2000.[1][2] A. Lange & Söhne was founded in 1845 in Glashütte and was independent until 2000.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Compagnie Financière Richemont SA Annual Report 2025, 16 May 2025. Last checked .
A. Lange & Söhne was expropriated by East Germany in 1948 and refounded in 1990 by the founders great-grandson after reunification. Richemont acquired it in 2000, and it is the only German house at the top of watchmaking. Its watches use untreated German silver plates and hand-engraved balance cocks, and every movement is assembled twice: once to fit, then dismantled, finished and rebuilt.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Richemont controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 11 of them in apparel, footwear & accessories.
The 72 brands in jewellery & watches on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Signet Jewelers, with 9; Richemont has 8.
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| Blancpain | Swatch Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
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| Concord | Movado Group | 🇺🇸 United States |
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| ARTA by PNJ | PNJ | 🇻🇳 Vietnam |
| ATTESA | Citizen Watch | 🇯🇵 Japan |
Richemont is a publicly listed company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 1988. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as SIX: CFR.
Richemont was created in 1988 when South African businessman Johann Rupert separated the international assets of Rembrandt Group into a Swiss holding company. It is the largest jewellery group in the world, built on Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, and the Rupert family retains voting control.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 252 brands that began in Germany. 93 of them (37%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, A. Lange & Söhne among them.
Richemont acquired A. Lange & Sohne, expropriated by East Germany in 1948 and refounded in 1990 by the founder's great-grandson after reunification. It is the only German house counted at the top of watchmaking. The price was not disclosed.
The parent company of A. Lange & Söhne is Richemont, a publicly listed company headquartered in Switzerland.
A. Lange & Söhne originated in Germany in 1845, but it is owned today by Richemont, which is headquartered in Switzerland. So A. Lange & Söhne is a German-origin brand under Swiss ownership.
Richemont completed its acquisition of A. Lange & Söhne on 1 July 2000, after announcing the deal on 1 July 2000. The price was not disclosed.
A. Lange & Söhne was an independent company from its founding in 1845 in Glashütte until Richemont acquired it in 2000.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, A. Lange & Söhne is still owned by Richemont. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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