A. Lange & Söhne Leverages Mechanical Complexity to Control Retail Allocation

A Lange & Söhne ’s 1815 collection honours the year of Ferdinand Adolph Lange’s birth with a lineup of traditional watches with design details inspired by Lange’s historic pocket watches. The seemingly straightforward 1815 Up/Down, with its power reserve indicator on the dial, has a fascinating historical background and was inspired by patent no. 9349 granted to A. Lange & Söhne in 1879 for a device in pocket watches “recognising whether the watch is wound or unwound.” Two new models, in compact 37.5mm pink or white gold cases, each limited to 300 pieces, join the family. While power reserve indicators have been used since the 18 th century, these were often complex, fragile and bulky, requiring many extra gears. Richard and Emil Lange’s patented power reserve addressed this issue with a space-efficient differential gear system, allowing their pocket watches to maintain a slim profile. Using the same foundational concept, Lange’s calibre L051.2 relies on a space-saving planetary gear system directly integrated into the movement, rather than stacked on top, resulting in the exquisitely thin 8.7mm case height. Available in pink or white gold, the 37.5mm case is smaller than the “standard” second-generation 39mm released in 2013 . A paragon of Saxon restraint and elegance, the case has horizontal satin-brushed flanks and a brightly polished concave bezel. The lugs, which are attac

Introducing The Breitling Navitimer B09 Chronograph 41 Miles Davis Dispatch Climbing High With The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time Cardinal Points Introducing Gallet Revives Vintage Fan-Favorites With New "Classics" Multichrons After a white gold release in 2018 and a rose gold version in 2021, a third version of the Triple Split enters the chat. A. Lange & Söhne is synonymous with the most elegant approach to maximalist watchmaking. The tiny time-telling cities contained within the brand's cases are hypnotic and baffling. Trust me, it becomes all the more impressive when you visit Glashütte and see the work in action. And the brand's CEO, Wilhelm Schmid, has said that among the complicated watches the brand is known for, their most talented watchmakers would often far rather work on tourbillons and perpetual calendars than the famous Triple Split. It's that complex. It's that impressive. And after five years away, it's back. In 2018, Lange launched the first version of the "upgrade," of sorts, to the brand's Double Split. The watch is essentially a rattrapante (a chronograph that can time two intervals), but with the added ability to "split" the interval of the 30-minute counter and, with the Triple Split, the 12-hour counter. It's an incredibly technical and impressive bit of watchmaking and even more impressive when you hear it's cased in a relatively compact (for its

A. Lange & Söhne has chosen this year’s Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court Palace to unveil two models, each arguably in its most attractive form to date. A no-nonsense, dignified hand-wound watch and the simpler of the two by some distance, the 1815 Up/Down returns in a more compact 37.5mm case, offered in white or pink gold in a limited edition of 300 pieces each, with an ink-blue dial and silver subdials, while the Triple Split appears in platinum for the first time with a panda-style dial, limited to 100 pieces. A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Up/Down 37.5mm (Image courtesy of A. Lange & Söhne for Revolution) Most watches and complications have a way of eventually finding company, but both the Double and Triple Split have remained genuinely peerless. Introduced in 2018, 14 years after the Double Split, the Triple Split is the only split-seconds chronograph capable of recording intermediate and comparative times for up to 12 hours. The rattrapante mechanism extends beyond the central seconds hands to the minute and hour counters, which means that six chronograph hands must start, split, reunite, stop, reset and restart in perfect coordination. More than that, it is also a flyback, which means that timing can be reset and restarted instantly, even if the hands are held in split. The original version of the watch paired a white gold case with a grey dial and silver registers. It was