Triumvirate in Tribute: A. Lange & Söhne Unveils Three New “Homage to F.A. Lange” Timepieces
The dawn of the watchmaking industry in the German state of Saxony began in 1845, when Ferdinand Adolph Lange established his pocketwatch workshop in the Ore Mountains town of Glashütte, which was the forerunner of the modern-day A. Lange & Söhne. As Saxon watchmakers commemorate this 175th anniversary in various ways, Lange, the granddaddy of them all, is doing so in its own inimitable style ? with three special timepieces honoring its founder and namesake, clad in its proprietary and rarely used precious metal alloy, called honey gold.
1815 Thin Honeygold “Homage to F.A. Lange”
The three limited editions in the “Homage to F.A. Lange” collection, revealed this week at Watches & Wonders Shanghai, all hail from the manufacture’s 1815 family, named for F.A. Lange’s birth year. From simplest to most complicated, they include the 1815 Thin Honeygold, 1815 Rattrapante Honeygold, and 1815 Tourbograph Perpetual Honeygold. The case of the 1815 Thin edition, limited to 175 pieces, measures a modest 38 mm in diameter and earns the “Thin” moniker with its wafer-like profile, just 6.3 mm high. It complements its honey gold case with a two-part white enamel dial, detailed on this special model with dark gray-printed Arabic numerals and bordered by a classical railway minute-track scale.
Honey gold, whose exact composition of materials Lange still keeps shrouded in secrecy, is harder and more scratch-resistant than o...
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