After about 7 years being heavy down the horological bunny hole I had sampled all of the usual and a few of the less usual suspects.From that very first Rolex, followed a tumultuous descent into […]
It would be tough to discover a watch company having a more dramatic background than that of A. Lange & Söhne. On the 20th anniversary of one of its emblematic models, the Lange 1 watch, […]
When A. Lange & Söhne’s product developers come up with new thoughts, they first have to answer a significant question is it possible to incorporate the concept into one of our current product families Or […]
The Grand Complication incorporates a grand and small strike, a minute repeater, a split-seconds chronograph with a minute counter and flying seconds, as well as a perpetual calendar with a moon-phase display. Only six of […]
With the upcoming Concorso d’Eleganza, this week at the Villa d’Este in Italy, we look back at our photoshoot with A. Lange & Söhne roughly 1 year ago. For the 2015 edition of the Concorso […]
The power reserve is the Rodney Dangerfield of complications: it doesn’t get a lot of respect. Although it’s not as cool as a chronograph or as beautiful as a moon-phase, it does provide vital information […]
A complication is a pretty thing, but it certainly doesn’t improve the legibility of a watch’s time display. And since the time of day is the most frequently sought information on a watch’s dial, it […]
When you think “Lumen“, you know it’s going to be rare, you know that’s it’s going to feature sapphire and you know it’s also going to be superb… At A. Lange & Sohne, the name […]
The Saxon manufacture finishes the year of its jubilee in beauty with a superb Handwerkskunst limited edition of 30 pieces of the 1815 Tourbillon. A fine watchmaking timepiece as beautiful as complex that celebrates the […]
1902 – 42500 Grande Complication This pocketwatch is the second-most complicated timepiece ever made under the A. Lange & Söhne name. (The first is a modern-day wristwatch version of the piece: see our article on […]