The difference is passion: set on attaining political and entrepreneurial freedom, Dr. Jurgen Lange tried to jump over the Wall in 1976. What he got was more than a year in an East Berlin jail. The chief executive of the Moser Group watch company recalls the journey as he introduces the luxury mechanical watches of H. Moser & Cie. to Swiss News.

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The difference is passion: set on attaining political and entrepreneurial freedom, Dr. Jurgen Lange tried to jump over the Wall in 1976. What he got was more than a year in an East Berlin jail. The chief executive of the Moser Group watch company recalls the journey as he introduces the luxury mechanical watches of H. Moser & Cie. to Swiss News.

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"That was a dream of mine since childhood--to find a place where no one [tries to] kill you when you jump over the Wall," says the East-German native. Another, he says, "was to have my own company".

Now, over 30 years later, Lange has achieved both. He is co-owner, CEO and chief engineer of Canton Schaffhausen's Moser Group AG--the company responsible for manufacturing the new era of H. Moser & Cie. mechanical watches.

Revival of the fittest

H. Moser & Cie. watches were first created and manufactured by Schaffhaus...

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