Something special from Glashütte’s first watchmaking company is the A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar watch, unveiled at SIHH 2012.   Tourbillons are tricky little things.  Their creation requires the skills of a Master Watchmaker.  Their number of components can be counted in the hundreds.  Their construction can be measured in hours [...]

    When a watch manufacture that produces timepieces which are of the highest standard available awards a collection within its own portfolio a special hallmark, then you know that these will indeed be exceptional watches.  A. Lange & Söhne have just released a new edition of the A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Tourbillon [...]

Among other amazing creations unveiled by A. Lange & Söhne at this year’s SIHH watch exhibition in Geneva was this beautiful Saxonia Annual Calendar. Available in either pink or white gold 38.5mm case, this piece is certainly easy on the eye, due to the unfussy layout of the solid silver dial and the use of [...]

From the prestigious Saxon manufacture comes a new addition to the world-renowned Lange 1 collection – the Lange 1 Daymatic.   This is the first wristwatch in the series to have an automatic winding movement, therefore the usual power reserve indicator, a feature on all previous manually wound Lange 1 dials is no longer required.  In [...]

  In East Germany, and only a matter of kilometers from both the Czech and Polish frontiers, there is a small city near Dresden in the Saxony region, called Glashütte. Something special makes this town, with a population of under 5000, stand out from the hundreds of other industrial towns in the region. You could [...]