The revival of a watch-making tradition in eastern Germany

Berlin  – Twenty years ago Glashuette, nestling in Germany’s enchanting Mueglitz Valley, midway between Dresden and the Czech border, was in the doldrums. Its once famous watch-making industry had hit bad times. Of its original 2,200 workforce only 100 employees were left. Then the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, followed a year later by the disintegration of the communist East German state. That led Walter Lange, who had been forced to leave communist East Germany in 1948, to return to Gl

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