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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 The company’s relaunch in the 90s also coincided with an intuitive understanding of aesthetics and a tireless commitment to precision: characteristic of Lange, every watch is assembled

twice to ensure maximum quality.

So today, the Glashütte-based company, part of the Richemont group, stands out from all other luxury watch manufacturers for the intrinsic value and elegant presentation of its products, making them attractive to collectors and ensuring that the brand is among the most acclaimed and sought-after in the world today. Today, Lange crafts only a few thousand wristwatches, mainly in gold or platinum, per year. They are endowed exclusively with proprietary movements that are lavishly decorated and twice assembled by hand. A. Lange & Söhne greatest successes include brand icons such as the Lange 1 watch with an outsize date, and the Zeitewerk, with its precisely jumping numerals. Extraordinary complica-

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 Saxon company.

NEW IN 2022

GLASHÜTTE-BASED successful chapter for the German

LUXURY WATCH high-end watchmaker. A. Lange

MANUFACTURER & Söhne has recently introduced

INTRODUCES three new novelties, a new variation THREE NEW TIMEPIECES, THE RICHARD LANGE MINUTE REPEATER, of the Odysseus, a Richard Lange Minute Repeater and an upgraded classic Grand Lange 1. Here they are in detail. ODYSSEUS TITANIUM ODYSSEUS The Odysseus makes its debut in TITANIUM titanium, considered the ‘new steel’ AND A NEW by luxury watchmakers. Although

GRAND LANGE 1 titanium is generally used to reduce weight and increase comfort, in the case of the Odysseus the choice is about aesthetics, because in this sense the steel version is certainly not lacking. A. Lange & Söhne will build just 250 examples of the Odysseus Titanium and, given the waiting time for the steel model, it’s highly likely that all these have been sold out, despite the not exactly low price tag. The blue dial and are replaced by an ‘ice blue’ color. The re-

The new Grand Lange 1 rose gold case

The new Richard Lange Minute Repeater

sult is a uniformly grey watch. The balance wheel en- last quarter, a single higher note. The Richard Lange Minute Repeater GRAND LANGE 1 which is adorned with a hand-engraved wave pattern. Grand Lange 1 moves to the Odysseus in titanium is waterproof up to 12 bars next generation with a new grey dial and, above all, a metres); to summarise, this is a singularly sophisticated case thickness of 8.2 millimetres. The central section and sporty product. RICHARD LANGE MINUTE A. LANGE & SÖHNE contrasting with the circular REPEATER GIVES FURTHER PROOF grain of the continuous seconds The last time A. Lange & Söhne created a minute repeater was the Zeitwerk, the trademark mechanical watch, thanks to its entirely digital display of OF ITS INIMITABLE SIGNATURE, MADE OF EXCELLENCE IN COMPLEX MECHANICS - counter, which almost imperceptibly overlaps the off-centre hours and minutes dial. The single L095.1-calibre barrel gives 72 hours’ autonomy hours and minutes. The Rich- IN OTHER WORDS, THE when the spring is fully loaded. ard Lange is purity embodied, GENIUS HIDDEN BEHIND The three-quarter plate conthe classic slide on the left- A SEEMINGLY SIMPLE ceals a complex construchand side of the case hints at STYLE tion: 397 components make up the complexity hidden behind the movement. With a case diamthe extremely simple aesthetics. eter of 41 mm, the new Grand The setting of the hammers allows the watch to chime Lange 1 is available with a white or rose gold case. With these three new models, A. Lange & Söhne gives further proof of its inimitable signature, made of excellence in progressive tone: a lower single chime for the hours, a complex mechanics - in other words, the genius hidden double note for the quarters, and for minutes after the behind a seemingly simple style.