A. LANGE & SÖHNE

1815 HOMAGE TO WALTER LANGE IN STEEL

By the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and subsequently the German reunification in 1990, Walter Lange was already in his 60s. He picked things up where his great-grandfather, Ferdinand Adolph Lange, left off 145 years ago, by founding Lange Uhren GmbH in his home town of Glashütte, and with that, paved the way for re-establishing Glashütte as the German capital of watchmaking. Following his death amidst the hubbub of the SIHH 2017, A. Lange & Söhne honours Walter Lange with the 1815, which features a stoppable jumping seconds hand that dates back to a 150-year-old invention conceived by senior Lange ‒ a horological complication that allows the exact measurement of the smallest unit of time. Reduced to the essence while still impressing the enthusiast with a purist yet technically exciting complication, the blued steel hands contrast well against the solid silver argenté dial with the classic railway‐track minute scale.