Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Date
Not all “digital watches” are cheap, electronic, or created alike. Germany?s A. Lange & Söhne has been creating its own decidedly high-end version of a digital watch ? that is, one that tells time via digits rather than hands ? for 10 years now, and its highlight piece at this year?s WatchTime New York ? taking place for the fifth straight year at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 25-26 ? is a new model in its groundbreaking Zeitwerk collection with an innovative date display. And yes, it?s all mechanical.
A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Date
The Zeitwerk Date, first shown to the public last January at the 2019 SIHH watch salon in Geneva, represents the latest leap forward for the iconoclastic timepiece, whose design is inspired by the famous clock at Dresden?s Semper Opera House. (Dresden is the nearest large city to Glashütte, the cradle of German watchmaking and longtime home of A. Lange & Söhne.) Introduced in 2009, the original Zeitwerk was the first mechanical wristwatch with a constant-force escapement and precisely jumping digits for the hours and minutes; it has since become firmly ensconced within Lange?s portfolio of watch families, with increasingly complicated models added over the years, including the Decimal Strike chiming watch in 2017. This watch, however, is the first in the line to include any type of date display, and it is a distinctive one indeed: a ring-shaped date scale made of glass, numbered 1 ? 31, encircles the dial,...
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