Mark Lange is infused with a vibrant past but is modern in every sense of the word. Founded in 1868 by Adolf Lang along with his brother-in-law Adolf Schneider, the company began operations at Glash Utte, Saxony, with only fifteen apprentice watchmaker. Lange had a certain aptitude for machines and tools, which combined with its imaginative and innovative mind led him to develop new and interesting methods to make watches. Lange began as an apprentice watchdog of the Clocktower of the Saxon Royal Court in Dresden, who was a renowned watchmaker on its own merits. In the years leading up to 1842, he worked in England, Paris and Switzerland, before returning to Dresden, where he married the daughter of his first teacher and eventually became co-owner of his new family business. Being a man of social mentality Lange, you installed a watch factory in Glashutte, a village with a very bad economic situation, where taught him several of the villagers the art of making the intricate parts that make up a clock. To do this, Lange hoped to establish a base of local suppliers of clock parts, thus freeing itself from the need of having to deal with foreign companies which were unstable.
The Lange company quickly gained reputation for creating exquisite pocket watches, of which the Grand complication was among the most spectacular, had indicator of the phase of the Moon, perpetual calendar, and fraction of a second chronograph. When Adolf Lange died in 1875, the company was known under the name of a. Lange & Sohne. His sons took care of the management of the company and kept it working during the first world war, in large part thanks to demand for its highly accurate marine chronometers. In 1930, the grandson of Adolf Lange, Richard Lange, led the company to patent an innovative alloy for spring, which incorporated the element beryllium, alloy making stable against a wide range of temperatures.