Lange & Sohne

Established in the year 1845, Lange & Sohne was later obliterated by bombers from Russia in the height of the Second World War. The infamous incident happened a decade later the company was founded. Restoration of the firm only took place when East Germany and West Germany were unified. By 1994, the first collection of Lange & Sohne watches was finally out in the market.

Lange & Sohne now has about two hundred sixty workers in its factory located in Glashutte. The company produces its very own movements as compared to its rivals in the industry where other firms supply the mechanism. The assembly is accomplished in a manual process and surprisingly, this manufacturer is capable of creating some few thousand watches in an annual basis. The invention of the different timepieces features specific trademarks that distinctly separate the brand from the rest. There are the, screw- on backs, sapphire crystal face and locked push pieces as well as the cases made of eighteen karat gold.

When you carefully observe the watches from Lange & Sohne, you will learn that the technical details are full of complexity. One of which is the middle main dial of Lange Tourbillion, the divided seconds chronograph of Datograph Uno, huge date display of Lange Saxonia and continuous calendar specifications of Langematik Perpetual. However, the company did not cease in their pursuit to launch brilliant timepieces that revolutionized the industry. Around April of 2004, a spectacular event was held in Geneva’s Watch Salon. The firm displayed the Lange Double Split.

The Lange Double Split is the first wrist watch in a global scale that has been incorporated with two counters of the divided chronograph. To modify things, it was a genuine timepiece within the very same device. Lange & Sohne employed the rattrapante movement developed in the year 1827 by Louis Frederick Perelle. It opened the possibility to gauge hours, minutes and seconds done by more than one objects separately. However, the said Lange & Sohne watch was even more astute in a sense that the case out of forty- three millimeters thick platinum included two counters- primary and secondary, respectively.

Lange Double Split also had an extra counter where it was more than probable to gauge an occasion that lasts for about thirty minutes. The feature is truly exceptional because when you study most of the typical chronographs, you will discover that they can only assess within a stretch of sixty seconds. With the watch from Lange & Sohne, it obviously surpassed the conventional functionality. The system provides the nearest potential identification which is crucial especially for those who are involved with horse racing or motor racing. This timepiece was said to be a “chronograph within a chronograph.”

Introduction of the Lange Double Split actually ended the dream of a lot of smiths in the watch industry even since the period of Louis Frederick Perelle. Because of which, the brainchild of the engineers from Germany instantly turned out to be stellar personalities in the field of chronographs. As a matter of fact, the producers were rewarded with the Grand Prix D’ Horlogerie De Geneve. At a similar instance, the fanatic creators of timepieces all had a new direction on how to invent a state- of- the- art horological device that acquired a novel style to be more attractive in the market.

Success of Lange & Sohne did not stop there because the company is actually a frequent winner of the produced movements be it automatic or manual. As what was mentioned in the earlier part of this article, the firm creates its own mechanism to be incorporated in its collection of watches. That fact alone is very interesting because you can be assured that the timepiece on your wrist has been toiled with much effort. Not to mention, excellently.