Marco Lang
A fifth-generation watchmaker born in Dresden in 1971, Marco Lang's father Rolf Lang was head restorer at Dresden's Mathematisch-Physikalischen Salon — a world-famous collection of watches and precision instruments — and later head of apprentices at A. Lange & Söhne. Marco completed a three-year apprenticeship as a precision mechanic in Glashütte (1989), then trained as a watchmaker under master Ihno Flessner in northern Germany before devoting five years to precision pendulum clocks. In 1999 he returned to Dresden and founded a small antique watch repair business. In 2001 he co-founded Lang & Heyne — the AHCI member and celebrated independent Saxon manufacture — where he served as creative and technical director for 18 years, developing 9 movements and 8 watch families (€20,000–150,000). In 2019, after creative differences with the investor who had come in 2013, he left his own namesake company at 47. Under the motto 'back to the workbench', he founded his solo atelier in 2020.
His debut solo creation was the Zweigesicht-1 (German for 'two-faced') — a reversible watch with distinct personalities on each side, inspired by Janus, the Roman god of transitions: one side classical silver with clous-de-Paris engraving and Roman numerals, the other modern. A shock-tracking indicator records impacts to the movement — an original Marco Lang invention. 'Made in Saxony.' Current work also includes the Seven Spheres, reflecting his lifetime of Saxon watchmaking mastery.
The Zweigesicht-1 ran as a limited series of eighteen pieces through 2025, after which Lang turned to what he calls the most technically sophisticated construction of his career: the Seven Spheres, launched in 2026 after three years of development. Cased in 950 platinum with a design vocabulary that echoes both the Zweigesicht-1 and his years at Lang & Heyne, the watch suspends its balance within a system of seven concentric rotating rings, joining an exceptionally small circle of watchmakers anywhere in the world capable of building a multi-axis tourbillon regulator of that complexity. Across his eighteen years developing movements for Lang & Heyne and his six years since as a solo maker, Lang has now created a total of nine distinct calibres and a body of work collectors describe as synonymous with the finest Saxon hand-finishing and aesthetics. He has framed the choice to leave a company still bearing his own name as, in effect, a return rather than a departure — going back to the workbench to pursue horological ideas that a growing manufacture, however excellent, no longer had room for. Working from Dresden rather than Glashütte, in the tradition his father helped preserve at the Mathematisch-Physikalischen Salon, Lang remains one of the clearest living links between historic Saxon watchmaking and its most technically ambitious present.