Technical tourbillon gets a 100-piece limited run with flat enamel dial.
by James Buttery

How to make A. Lange & Söhne?s spectacular 1815 Tourbillon which, when released in 2014, was the first watch to combine a stop seconds tourbillon with a zero-reset mechanism for single-second precision adjustment, even more desirable"

The Glashutte maison (or is that haus") has released a 100-piece limited edition run in platinum with a crisp white enamel dial to set off the vivid thermally blued hands.
Enamel dials are something we have a renewed respect for here at QP, having recently visited the famed Ulysse Nardin-owned Donze Cadrans in Switzerland (watch this space for a full QP Field Trip report in the Autumn issue). The rejection rate when producing an enamel dial is incredible, often requiring four or five pieces to be made to find one that will pass muster. The risk of breakage while drilling holes for cannon pinion and post in a near complete dial is also very real.
It?s also worth noting that this Lange enamel dial is also ever so slightly simplified in its architecture when compared to the standard solid silver dials of the 1815 Tourbillon. Instead of featuring a circular, central recessed section the enamel dial is a flat, single layered design.
Of course, replicating the standard 1815 Tourbillon dial design in enamel would certainly be feasible (Hermes released a multi-layered enamel dial Slim d?Hermes in 2016). Producing a multi-layered enamelled dial i...