A. Lange & Söhne Revisits the Cabaret Tourbillon with Handwerkskunst Limited Edition
With the unveiling of its Cabaret Tourbillon in 2008, Germany’s A. Lange & Söhne presented a watchmaking milestone: the first tourbillon wristwatch with a stop-seconds mechanism for its rotating balance. The high-horology flagship of the Cabaret family, which was discontinued just two years later, the rectangular-cased timepiece makes its return in grand fashion this year, as the latest member of the Saxon manufacture’s artisanal Handwerkskunst series.
The Cabaret Tourbillon Handwerkskunst revives a model launched in 2008.
Launched 10 years ago, around the same time the original Cabaret models were being phased out, A. Lange & Söhne’s Handwerkskunst series is characterized by spectacular levels of hand decoration on the dials, cases, and even the movements (“handwerkskunst” translates to “craftsmanship”). For the Cabaret Tourbillon Handwerkskunst, the seventh overall in the exclusive series, the signature motif is a “lozenge” design style that finds its expression on the manually engraved dial with a semi-transparent enamel coating. The three-part dial is made of solid white gold, with a grey-shaded outer zone on which the white-gold, lozenge-shaped hour appliqués appear, along with applied Roman numerals at 12, 3, and 9 o’clock.
The case is made pf platinum, the dial of gold, with a semi-transparent enamel finish.
Separating this outer sector from the inner one, with its elaborate hand-engra...
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