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Icons of watchmaking: The Lange 1
The ICON: Lange 1. Just a simple picture…perfection does not need improvement… Or elaboration.
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The ICON: Lange 1. Just a simple picture…perfection does not need improvement… Or elaboration.
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After nearly three months of soft opening, the A Lange & Sohne Singapore ION Orchard Boutique was officially opened on the 28th of February 2013. “Singapore”, said Lange Uhren Gmbh CEO Wilhelm Schmid, “is famed among the watch industry as one that draws highly knowledgeable and passionate watch enthusiasts”. More, Singapore as a market must […]
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The first A Lange & Söhne Singapore boutique has been (soft opening) in business at the prestigious ION Orchard mall for around 3 months now, aiming to please the loyal Asian Lange fans. To celebrate the expaded presence of the brand in Singapore, the boutique will have its official grand opening at the end of […]
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The iconic piece Lange showed this SIHH2013 is the Grande Complication. Modelled after and inspired by the 42500 Grande Complication Pocket watch, this magnificent piece is the lastest salvo fired by the little manufacture in Glashutte. Report from SIHH. A. Lange & Söhne Grande Complication A Grand Complication…typically this is a concoction of 4Read More
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Lange’s new movement crop this year included the new 1815 Up/Down As I mentioned in Tuesday’s post, Lange introduced several new movements this year. The superb and magnificent 1815 Rattrapante Perpetual Calendar, the new Grande Complication, and today I feature a refreshed 1815 Up/Down. This is a reissue of an old favourite…the original 1815 Up/Down…whichRead More
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A Lange & Söhne’s stature ranks among the highest in the haute horlogerie world and one of the most requested complication from the Lange fans is a Minute Repeater. Despite having a comprehensive range of uber complications, Lange is well aware of this obvious gap in their range of exceptional timepieces. This year, The A Lange […]
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It’s the small company with a big reputation: A. Lange & Söhne hit the ground running when it was revived by Walter Lange and Gunter Blümlein, and since then has gone from strength to strength, building both its reputation and a worldwide following of enthusiasts for whom the first name in ultra-high-end German watchmaking is […]
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More first person photographs, this time in high resolution, and in better lighting to show the magnificent Lange 1 Lumen. Again, I won’t repeat the technical specifications or show you press photographs. Here you will find my photography at work. A mix of photographs from the Hasselblad H3D-39 with 120mm macro and Panasonic Lumix GH-2Read More
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Exclusive live photographs of the just announced, literally 6 hours ago…of the new Lange 1 Lumen. Literally just returned from the launch event. Very tired, and have a full day schedule shooting the watch in more ideal conditions tomorrow…so look out for those photographs. In the meantime, on site photographs…I think possibly the first onRead More
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The Lange Arkade is an underated watch. The movement is beautiful…magnificent even. The case unique, the outsized date was an outrage when it was first introduced in 1994. In many sense, this is an outstanding watch…with one small print…it is a ladies timepiece. The ladies watch market, sadly, is dominated with quartz watches, which featureRead More
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A quick place marker for next week’s post. Possibly the most beautifully made mechanical ladies watch in production…the Lange Arkade. This specimen is in yellow gold case, champagne dial. Personal timepiece of my wife’s. Photographed simply in a restaurant, while we were having lunch, perched on a plate. One of the original watches introduced byRead More
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I was encouraged with the response to my post on the Parmigiani watches on tools, so today I decided to dig into my archives and offer some photographs of Langes on tools. These photographs appear in my book: “A, Lange & Sohne: The Pour le Merite Collection” available here. Today, I show the magnificent LangeRead More
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Exclusive pictures of the Stainless Steel Lange Tourbillon “Pour le Merite” In the early days of the manufacture, the leadership of the company, principally Mr Gunter Blumlein made some difficult decisions to make special edition watches for special customers…he subsequently stopped this practice, as it creates considerable headaches for the company to dedicate resources toRead More
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December 20, 0900 CET Lange announces the replacement for the 11 year old Datograph with a new and improved Datograph. I attended the launch event in Dresden, and managed to spend a full morning with the watch, photographing, examining, pondering. Here are the exclusive live photographs and my personal impressions. Reinventing classics is an activityRead More
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posted on Timezone.com Lange Forum on July 12 I was reminded my M…yes, as in Bond’s boss…me being the intrepid 00P…:-) that I have not yet reported on Lektion Zwei. My apologies, as the last few weeks have been busy with the book that I have had to push back on other activities. The bookRead More
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Today’s feature is the special watch produced by Lange for the Kidz Horizon auction scheduled for 27 August 2011 in Singapore. Please go here to read the Lange press release, and about Duncan Wang and Kidz Horizon. I photographed the press release photographs, and here I release a few more photographs from the same session.Read More
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Lange hosted a very special event in Singapore, a series of 3, all interlinked together. Some of you may already have heard of the Lange Akademie. This was started and headed by the beautiful Joanna Lange (yes, she recently wedded Benjamin Lange, who is the son of Walter Lange) in 2008. And have been trainingRead More
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The Lange Annual Calendar…the first Lange watch to bear this complication is shown below: The annual calendar offers a lower cost alternative to the perpetual calendar…and also a cleaner, easier to read dial layout. Very handsome watch, clean dial layout, very legible. Movement again in characteristic Lange finish. The annual calendar movement is under theRead More
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We continue with the Homage series in honey gold. The 1815 Moonphase is a rehash of the original Emil Lange 1815 Moonphase which has been doing very well in the auction scene. The character of the 1815 dial design is apparent in the new watch. But the design shows a totally new watch…featuring the vapourRead More
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I have received clearance to release the information, so here are the pictures and information on the new, amazing piece from Lange. The tourbillon – cage size 10.4mm, the same dimension as for Lange 1 Tourbillon. In comparison the Pour le Merite and Tourbograph tourbillon cage measures 12.6mm. The tourbillon itself comprises of 84 parts,Read More
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An update to the dressy pilot's watch from Cartier brings a slinky new bracelet and a deep stone dial option.The post Cartier releases new large Santos-Dumont models with metal bracelets and in-house mechanical movements appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Is this the Goldilocks-sized Fifty Fathoms release everyone has been waiting for?The post The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms range reaches new depths with the Automatique 38mm appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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At Watches and Wonders 2023, Cartier introduced the new Tank Américaine. It excited me because I had tried on an older Tank Américaine a few months before at a get-together. It was a gold version with a date and a guilloché dial, and it unexpectedly charmed me. I assumed the Tank Américaine would be too […] Visit Hands-On With The 2023 Cartier Tank Américaine Large Models In Steel And Yellow Gold to read the full article.
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Steel bezels plus a quintet of colourful sunburst dials elevate these CasiOaks.The post The new Casio G-Shock GM-2100D range gives the CasiOak a more robust yet colourful makeover appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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The Legend Diver 39mm gets a refresh with new green, terracotta, and anthracite polished lacquer dials.The post The Longines Legend Diver 39mm range expands with new polished lacquer dial colours (live pics) appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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