A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Watch Review

A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Watch Review

A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Watch Review

At the begining of 2017

Throughout the SIHH, Walter Lange, the person accountable for resuscitating the legendary A. Lange & S?hne watch brand, sadly died. To pay for tribute for this humble and charming man, the organization made the decision to produce a homage watch, only the way he wanted (a wrist watch that Walter Lange had always imagined of, but which in fact had never materialised…until now). Open to the general public in three shades of gold, yet another good piece continues to be produced in stainless.

A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Watch Review

Walter Lange loved watches and the organization his grandfather founded in 1845, within the village of Glashütte. Trained like a watch manufacturing company, he understood watches thoroughly and labored for quite some time at the organization, sitting behind every possible bench, focusing on pieces that bore his family’s name. Yet, in 1948, the organization was expropriated through the East German government and merged along with other local manufactures as GUB (Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe), a wrist watch factory producing affordable, run-of-the-mill watches. In November 1948, to flee forced work within the uranium mines, Walter Lange gone to live in Western Germany, where he ongoing his career within the watchmaking industry.

Following nov the Berlin Wall in the finish of 1989 and also the consequent reunification of Germany

Walter was finally able to go back to his homeland and, just 5 years later, the organization ‘A. Lange & S?hne’ was elevated in Glashütte. Like a tribute towards the immense heritage of the manufacture, Lange unveiled four new watches operated by high-finish mechanical movements and, once more, the company grew to become symbolic of beautiful watches.

A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Watch Review

Fully immersed within the activities from the manufacture, Walter was active in the creation process and personally gave his opinion on all of the new collections. Yet, there is one watch Walter Lange always imagined of, a wrist watch that will feature a completely independent jumping seconds complication, certainly one of his favourite complications, and something which had made an appearance in Lange’s pocket watches within the late 1800s. The work didn't materialise throughout his lifetime but, before the SIHH 2018 and also the first anniversary of his dying, A. Lange & S?hne features a completely independent jumping seconds complication that will make Walter Lange proud. The A. Lange & S?hne 1815 ‘Homage To Walter Lange’ is going to be obtainable in three different gold editions (yellow, white-colored and rose) along with a 4th version, this time around like a unique watch, in steel.

Steel is easily the most common metal in watchmaking, but it's most certainly the best at Lange, because the brand seldom makes use of this material to produce timepieces. This excellent piece in stainless, coupled with a distinctive black enamel dial, is really a rare opportunity get hold of something highly collectable.

The A. Lange & S?hne 1815 ‘Homage To Walter Lange’ is outfitted with two seconds hands. 

A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Watch Review

The little seconds counter includes a classic sweeping hands, making six jumps per second because of the 21,600vph beat rate. The central seconds hands differs, because it performs precise jumps from second to second, meaning that it's always perfectly aligned using the markers around the periphery from the dial. Additionally for this seconde morte (dead seconds) feature, the central seconds hands can run continuously (well, with one-second increments) or perhaps be immobilised as needed. A pusher at 2 o’clock starts and stops it. This can be a helpful function for heartbeat measurements, for example.

The initial steel form of mtss is a. Lange & S?hne 1815 ‘Homage To Walter Lange’ is going to be auctioned by Phillips Watches on May 12, 2018, throughout the Geneva Watch Auction: SEVEN. All of the arises from the purchase is going to be donated to Children Action, a Swiss charitable foundation that protects children’s legal rights.