Ever since its pocket watch days, handling an A. Lange & Söhne timepiece has delivered a singular sensation: a profound, unmistakable heft. It is a presence that surprises you, prompting the question: “Is there an additional gold or metal hidden somewhere in this watch?” When the brand was reborn in 1990 and the first collection … Read more
One of the more curious inversions in horology is this: nearly two centuries after Abraham-Louis Breguet introduced the “Perpétuelle,” elevating the self-winding mechanism into one of watchmaking’s great inventions, the automatic movement, arguably the most practical, everyday complication, had, become almost too ordinary. It was the domain of large industrial brands, optimized for reliability and … Read more
A. Lange & Söhne is not the luckiest manufacturé when it comes to drawing design inspirations from its past. The company was born in 1845 and the 100 years of pocket watch era left only general, common templates behind which gave birth to 1815 and Richard Langecollections. Later on unfortunately A. Lange & Söhne missed in the golden … Read more
On the evening of 7/12/1990 in Dippoldiswalde, exactly 145 years after Walter Lange’s great-grandfather Ferdinand Adolph Lange registered his trademark as A. Lange & Cie, third-generation of the Lange family gave life to the cornerstone manufacturé of the German watchmaking. In 10 years, Walter Lange, Günter Blümlein, Hartmut Knothe on the management side and Reinhard … Read more
There are gems in many brands’ catalogues that are overlooked for decades and there are numerous reasons for this happening. Sometimes it is because they are simply ahead of their time and sometimes because they bring out such a strong character and diversion from the consuetudinary, it takes time to sink in. Here such a … Read more
As I listen to Richard Wagner while writing this article, it becomes increasingly clear why A. Lange & Söhne chose his homeland to name their most reserved, yet profoundly engineered collection. Much like Wagner’s music, the Saxonia is filled with regional leitmotifs, “carriers of emotion,” as he called them. And like his dramas, the original … Read more
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