PASSION WATCHES
TIMELESS ELEGANCE AND UNIQUENESS GERMAN LUXURY WATCHMAKER A. LANGE & SÖHNE PRESENTS FOUR NEW MODELS THIS YEAR AT WATCHES & WONDERS text Teresa Favi
At the heart of A. Lange & Söhne there’s a story unlike any other. The German high-end watch manufacturer, founded in 1845 in Glashütte (Germany, a few kilometres from Dresden, the capital of Saxony), was expropriated following the Second World War and reestablished after
tions such as the Zeitewerk Minute Repeater, the Triple Split and the so far most complicated model, the Grand Complication six, represent an object of desire by both connoisseurs and collectors. The sporty yet elegant Odysseus, intro-
The company’s relaunch in the 90s also coincided Saxon company. with an intuitive understanding of NEW IN 2022 aesthetics and a tireless commitment to precision: characteristic of GLASHÜTTE-BASED successful chapter for the German Lange, every watch is assembled high-end watchmaker. A. Lange LUXURY WATCH twice to ensure maximum quality. & Söhne has recently introduced MANUFACTURER So today, the Glashütte-based comthree new novelties, a new variation INTRODUCES pany, part of the Richemont group, of the Odysseus, a Richard Lange THREE NEW stands out from all other luxury Minute Repeater and an upgraded TIMEPIECES, THE watch manufacturers for the intrinclassic Grand Lange 1. Here they RICHARD LANGE sic value and elegant presentation are in detail. MINUTE REPEATER, ODYSSEUS TITANIUM of its products, making them atODYSSEUS tractive to collectors and ensuring The Odysseus makes its debut in that the brand is among the most titanium, considered the ‘new steel’ TITANIUM acclaimed and sought-after in the by luxury watchmakers. Although AND A NEW world today. titanium is generally used to reGRAND LANGE 1 Today, Lange crafts only a few duce weight and increase comfort, thousand wristwatches, mainly in in the case of the Odysseus the gold or platinum, per year. They are choice is about aesthetics, because endowed exclusively with proprietary movements that in this sense the steel version is certainly not lacking. A. are lavishly decorated and twice assembled by hand. A. Lange & Söhne will build just 250 examples of the OdLange & Söhne greatest successes include brand icons ysseus Titanium and, given the waiting time for the steel such as the Lange 1 - model, it’s highly likely that all these have been sold out, watch with an outsize date, and the Zeitewerk, with its despite the not exactly low price tag. The blue dial and precisely jumping numerals. Extraordinary complicaare replaced by an ‘ice blue’ color. The re92
