A. Lange & Söhne

April 27, 2012

Gallery: Lange on the Rocks

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A. Lange & Söhne founder, Ferdinand A. Lange, brought watchmaking to the Ore Mountains in 1845. As a homage Lange commissioned a photo shoot combining their timepieces with rocks and minerals from the region acting as the background for each shot.

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March 25, 2012

Recommended Reading: Spring Action

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This article is based on a manufacture tour I went on at A. Lange & Sohne in Glashutte, Germany this past December. It focuses on one of Lange's most important areas of expertise, balance spring production. Few manufacturers have this capability in-house, instead most watch brands outsource their spring production through Nivarox. You can read the full article at iWMagazine.com, or in the March 2012 print issue of International Watch magazine.



March 5, 2012

10Best Watches From SIHH 2012

1 Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 40th Anniversary (entire collection)

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February 29, 2012

Lange 1 Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar for Leap Day

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First introduced in 1994, the Lange 1, with its signature off-center dial, is the most iconic timepiece in the A. Lange & Sohne collection. Last month in Geneva, Lange revealed the most complicated Lange 1 timepiece ever - the Lange 1 Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar.

Today is Leap Day (February 29th - as it is a leap year), so it is fitting that this timepiece's perpetual calendar function automatically corrects for the extra day (apart from perpetual calendars - mechanical timepieces require the date to be manually corrected).

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January 29, 2012

SIHH 2012: The new Grande Lange 1

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Earlier this month, during SIHH 2012, German watchmaker A. Lange & Söhne introduced a redesigned version of their popular Grande Lange 1.

The original Grande Lange 1 had a 41.9 mm case and overlapping dials. The new Grande Lange 1 has a 40.9 mm case and the dials no longer overlap. (For reference, the Lange 1 has a case diameter of 38.5 mm and has non-overlapping dials.)

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December 20, 2011

Exclusive: A. Lange & Söhne Datograph AUF/AB

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In advance of the 2012 SIHH show, Glashütte based manufacture A. Lange & Söhne recently previewed one of their forthcoming novelties.  In Dresden, Germany in front of a group of journalists from around the globe - Wilhelm Schmid (CEO) and Anthony De Haas (Director of Product Development) - revealed the new Datograph AUF/AB Flyback Chronograph.

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December 12, 2011

Wristshot: Richard Lange Observatory Chronometer

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A. Lange & Sohne "Richard Lange"


September 15, 2011

Richard Lange Tourbillon "Pour le Mérite" Handwerkskunst

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Introducing the Richard Lange Tourbillon "Pour le Mérite" Handwerkskunst. The Handwerkskunst is a 15-watch limited edition of the fourth "Pour le Mérite" that was introduced in Glashutte in December 2010.

The case of the new Handwerkskunst is in A. Lange & Söhne's signature honey-colored gold. With a Vickers hardness of 300 HV, the gold alloy is almost twice as hard as yellow gold.

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