HISTORICAL ROOT S | 11 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VERSION OF TIME Dresden is a dream and for many visitors the most beautiful city in Germany. Life is breathing the air of the Elbe Valley here; the meadows are spreading along the river; grapes ripen on the hillsides and the residents gazing into the endless expanse from their mansions. In the 800-year-old city center the castle of the noble family of the House of Wettin and the baroque Zwinger presenting art treasures spanning nine centuries. Countless excellent pieces of watchmaker art, jeweler and goldsmith’s art shine in the treasure chambers. Elector August I. started to attract artisans to move into Dresden in the 16th century, they created incomparable mechanical sorceries. Subsequent rulers have done the same thing. Thus Dresden grew to an impotant cultural and handcrafted center within Europe. Bigger and more industrial watch manufactures were formed in the nearby Glashütte in the Saxon Switzerland in the 19th century, whereas the Dresden based master watchmakers created sophisticated unique pieces and small series for exceptional clients. LANG & HEYNE feels honor-bound to this tradition: best quality in our watches, manually and honestly created, in an exclusive small series. Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments in the Zwinger of Dresden. Orbit clock by Eberhard Baldewein, Hans Bucher and Hermann Diepel, manufactured between 1563-1568 for the Saxon Elector.
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