Meet Jens Schneider, Development Direct of Lang & Heyne. Traditional watchmaking is in his blood. After spending 19 years in A. Lange & Söhne, significantly developing Moritz Grossmann, Jens is now reviewing and upgrading all the Lang & Heyne calibres, pushing the craftsmanship to the highest standard.

If you ask Jens preference, he believes in the beauty of traditional watchmaking, formed by the barrel, the gear train and the escapement. As inspired by pocket watch, the case size of Lang & Heyne watches are designated to be not too small. That’s for the stability of the watch.

The wheel is sandwiched for the purpose of finding out the imbalanced part. Bit by bit, the uneven point is adjusted and reduced.

Parts of Jens tools.

The guests enter to a world of watchmaking tools.

If the balance and the angle are alright, the hairspring moves evenly.

Thanks Jens for demonstrating. You can feel his passion and would be impressed by his profound knowledge. Visit Dresen and you witness the craftsmanship in live.

In Lang & Heyne, the breguet balance-spring is mathematically and precisely calculated, making every oscillation an experience. The last coil is bent into shape in a time-consuming and masterful process. It takes a trained watchmaker several hours to finish this delicate work.

Jens loves drawing, steam engines and locomotives. Thanks to his solid watchmaking background, the quality control of Lang & Heyne is incomparable.

On the other day, Alexander Gutierrez Diaz, CEO of Lang & Heyne, joined the sharing. He respects the exclusivity of Lang & Heyne production, meanwhile he reminds the industry the “Made in Saxony” watches.

On Jens wrist is the Anton, identified by a rectangular case with a substantial second cutout, housing the huge flying one minute-Tourbillon Ø11,1 mm

Lang & Heyne tourbillon pays tribute to the first flying tourbillon, developed by Alfred Helwig with his master student Conrad Richter at the Glashütte watchmaking school around 1920. Helwig made a flying five-minute tourbillon as a masterpiece. You may notice the similar cage on both design.

The proportions of the rectangular case with huge second cutout cries out for opening the enamel dial to reveal the delicate Tourbillon cage. So beautiful is the Saxon way of watchmaking.

The calibre IX for Anton. Two rubies form the bearings for an axle with a plate. The tourbillon is screwed onto this plate and is therefore positioned above the storage. The hollow-drilled seconds pinion is pressed onto this axis and fixes it.

Anton takes the base of Gerog, they share the same case design. Dimension without lugs is 40 mm x 32 mm, height 9.4 mm

Lang & Heyne is specialised in customising watches. The galvanic silver opens up the choices of dial colour, say black, gold, salmon and ivory.

Tidiness avoids missing any important components.

“J. Schneider Glashütte”.

If you are looking for refined hand craftsmanship. The annual production is around 100-120 pieces at the moment.

An example of customised Anton.