There aren’t many watches today that are as disruptive as the Zeitwerk was when it was first unveiled in 2009. Many liken the introduction of the Zeitwerk to that of the Lange 1 in 1994, shocking and paradigm-shifting. To this day, the Zeitwerk remains the black sheep of the Lange collection with its very contemporary, atypical…
Increasingly, watch fairs like SIHH and Baselworld are headlined by the complications of the grandest and most expensive forms. They’re beautiful, head-turning and as a result, outclass most of the other watches a brand might release. A common joke (warning: it’s fairly gauche) amongst men is the fear of going to bed with a…
Each year for SIHH, it is Lange tradition to debut a timepiece of monumental complexity as the star novelty. Last year it was the Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon – a perpetual calendar chronograph with a tourbillon regulator – and the year before that, the Zeitwerk Minute Repeater, a decimal minute repeater that also…
There was sombreness in the air when A. Lange & Söhne presented its 2017 novelties on the Tuesday of SIHH week. Earlier in the day, news of Walter Lange’s passing had reached Geneva and many tears were shed. Walter Lange played a significant role in the revival and re-establishment of A. Lange & Söhne on December 7, 1990. He…
Launched at SIHH 2017 A. Lange & Söhne announced what they called a “practical improvement” (which i disagree because it happens to be darned beautiful as well) to the Lange 1 Moon Phase Day Night which equips the most recognisable and venerable watch in the Lange collection with a new base movement as well as a new…
The Lange booth at the SIHH on the morning of January 17, was very sober and the usual festival mood was largely missing. That morning, the co-founder of the Lange Uhren GmbH who owns the trade name of A. Lange & Söhne has passed away peacefully after a short illness.…
This weeks Spot the Watch is camera related and was brought to our attention by a friend of Deployant. He spotted an article in Het Financieele Dagblad, a Dutch financial paper that was on the CEO of Hasselblad Cameras, Perry Oosting and his favourite items.…