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09 September 2020 |
A.Lange & Söhne,
Luxury Watches,
In 1815, Ferdinand Adolph Lange laid the technical and industrial foundations of the Saxon watchmaking school, turning a small town, Glashütte, into the capital of the most refined German watchmaking. After an extended lockdown, the watchmaking industry started its engines with Watches and Wonders Shanghai, held between 9 and 13 ...
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29 June 2020 |
A.Lange & Söhne,
Watch Photography,
German Watches,
An A.Lange & Söhne timepiece is often celebrated for its first-class quality, not just from a technical point of view (let me highlight the Triple Split and the Zeitwerk, for instance) but for the exquisite detailing on their dials too. Any Lange watch undergoes obsessive development, which involves micro-engineering, extreme ...
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24 April 2020 |
A.Lange & Söhne,
German Watches,
Watches and Wonders,
The unveiling of the A.Lange & Söhne Odysseus represents no doubt a milestone for the brand: it is their first-ever full steel watch, to have been ever equipped with a screw-down crown and offer an integrated bracelet. In short, it is the business card of A.Lange & Söhne among luxury ...
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16 January 2019 |
A.Lange & Söhne,
German Watches,
Watch Reviews,
SIHH 2019,
When Walter Lange and Günter Blümlein relaunched, in 1994, A.Lange & Söhne, they came up with a timepiece featuring an off-centered dial and outsized date. It initially created quite a stir but has soon become the hallmark of all things A.Lange & Söhne. The brand is celebrating this year that ...
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01 January 2019 |
A.Lange & Söhne,
German Watches,
Did You Know,
A wristwatch's power reserve is one of the most debated topics among enthusiasts and is one of the most highlighted features by those brands that design their mechanical movements in-house. IWC is for example known for its big calibers that guarantee up to seven days of power reserve, Panerai revolutionized ...
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26 November 2018 |
A.Lange & Söhne,
German Watches,
A great story rewritten That of A.Lange & Söhne is one of the most beautiful industrial examples of the second post-war period, and of a Germany that reunited under a single flag after the fall of the Wall. The enthusiasm that shook the whole Germany in the early 90s also involved ...
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04 October 2018 |
A.Lange & Söhne,
Perpetual Calendar,
Luxury Watches,
German Watches,
Watch Reviews,
SIHH 2016,
Welcome to Glashütte, the Silicon Valley of German Haute Horlogerie The last time we talked about an A.Lange & Söhne was at SIHH 2018 and the timepiece was the 2018 Triple Split, a complicated yet unique timepiece. Today we will talk about one of the brand's super-complicated watches, a timepiece that is ...
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11 August 2018 |
A.Lange & Söhne,
IWC,
Jaeger-LeCoultre,
Montblanc,
Roger Dubuis,
The tourbillon might not be considered at the same level as a minute repeater, which represents the pinnacle of haute-horlogerie, but it is indisputable that it represents a fascinating and even more intriguing complication. A minute repeater requires a trained ear and acoustics competence to be fully appreciated, while the tourbillon ...
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28 January 2018 |
A.Lange & Söhne,
German Watches,
Watch Reviews,
SIHH 2018,
In a world populated by ‘marketers’ - as an amusing video by Moser watches provocatively defined it - there is a manufacturing company that still preserves an authentic tradition of haute-horlogerie. The provocation of the Meylan family was a reference to the Swiss watch-makers and it was uttered just before ...
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13 June 2017 |
A.Lange & Söhne,
Watch Reviews,
“Slow”; this is the adjective that is most suitable to use to describe the Concorso di Eleganza Villa d'Este 2017 and all the editions of this event that have taken place over the past years, since the time when the very first real car show in history was officially reborn. ...
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