Credits: Article and images by Andre Frois @ Revolution Watch Magazine. See the original article here - https://revolutionwatch.com/in-memory-of-gerd-rudiger-lang/
In the 1970s and 80s when quartz watches seemed to have dealt a coup de grâce to mechanical watchmaking, Gerd Lang fervently championed mechanical watchmaking and would become one of the pioneers of its renaissance.
Born in Braunschweig, Germany in 1943, Gerd-Rüdiger Lang was brought by his father to a watchmaking school at age 15, where he studied the craft for four years. After some apprenticeships, he landed a job in Heuer (now TAG Heuer) in 1964, where he would work for 28 years.
After Heuer closed its Munich office in the early 1980s, Lang founded Chronoswiss in 1983. Lang remarked that it would be confusing to open a company bearing his family name, because there already was an important watch brand with a similar name.
Credits: Article and images by Andre Frois @ Revolution Watch Magazine. See the original article here - https://revolutionwatch.com/in-memory-of-gerd-rudiger-lang/
