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Originally Posted by tony20009
My mistake. The current ALS was actually started in 1990. 1994 is when they released their first watch.
The original ALS was founded in 1845. On 20 April 1948, the firm A. Lange & Söhne was expropriated and renamed to VEB Mechanics A. Lange & Söhne. Thus the company ceased to exist during the cold war. The company name was reborn in 1994 and that recreated ALS is what we have today. ( https://www.richemont.com/9-press-ne...oultre-sa.html)
The ALS of today is not the ALS of 1845-1948; it is a new company. It is fortuitous for ALS that they have a Lange family member involved and that they operate from their old HQ. Those two things certainly help in "hiding" that it's a new company.
All the best. |
Yes Lange is a new company by all standards. If they were as old as previously stated, they would be worth more than Pateks.
Give Lange another 10-20yrs and see how many more people are buying them vs. Pateks.