A. Lange Sohne announced?the A. Lange Sohne Richard Lange Tourbillon Pour Le Merite in late 2010 (hands-on here), and at the time, it was pretty much the be-all and end-all timepiece in Langes history. Sure, their hugely impressive Double Split and?a few other highl [...]

Was it worth it for Grieb Benzinger to sacrifice an A. Lange Sohne Tourbillon for the one-of-a-kind Blue Merit watch? We talk about new watches from Ulysse Nardin as well as the Harry Winston Histoire de Tourbillon 5 which is pretty cool.Listen to the HourTime Show watch podcast episode 158 here. Direct download or play .mp3 here.http://traffic.li [...]

It was in 2009 that A. Lange Sohne released the original Zeitwerk watch and, oddly enough, Ive never fully covered it on , despite having a great fondness for the piece. Five years later in 2014, and suddenly we have our first hands-on look at a timepiece Ive always loved. Better late then never, right? It just go [...]

One of the most simple and satisfyingly elegant new tourbillon watches for 2014, not surprisingly, comes from our German friends at A. Lange Sohne. The 1815 Tourbillon immediately caught my eye when we learned about it at SIHH 2014 due to the large-diameter tourbillon and good, legible looks based on the popular 1815 collection. Being a Lange, [...]

Since its resurrection during the early nineties, A. Lange Sohne has turned into one of the worlds finest and most sophisticated manufactures a position it fails to lose, no matter how economic crises or ever-changing trends affect the industry. As grandiose as that [...]

This Datograph Up/Down is the stuff grail watches are made of. A sublime Teutonic expression of watch making perfection so timeless it escapes all notions of era, style, or trend. A watch for all times and ages, pieces by German A. Lange Sohne are what many watch lovers strive to acquire. Sounds lofty? That statement isnt so unreasonab [...]

In addition to having the longest name of any wristwatch I went hands-on with this year, the A. Lange Sohne Lange I Tourbillion Perpetual Calendar Handwerkskunst might also be the single most impressive-if nothing else, it is simply jaw-droppingly beautiful.Yes, my [...]

Welcome back to an original feature, My First Grail Watch. In this series, we ask prominent people in the watch industry about the first timepiece that they lusted after. (ABTW): Who are you and what is your relationship to the watch industry? Magnus Michelsen (MM): Im the brother, son, grandson and great-grandson of watchmakers. Although Im [...]

The indication of the phase of the moon is among the most aesthetic, poetic, and practically useless complications that modern horology has to offer. While its everyday necessity undoubtedly is questionable, its splash of blue, its constellatio [...]

Authors Note: If the following sounds like a love letter to A. Lange Sohne, thats because it is.Having reviewed and gushed over an A. Lange Sohne timepiece this past spring (the Saxonia Annual Calendar in platinum), I jumped at the chance to join the brand in Napa Valley when I received an invite to their Akademie program in early September. Knowin [...]

Starting today and running to the 28th, the Watches and Wonders show in Hong Kong (a new watch show event) brings collectors and enthusiasts closer to some of the worlds best watches. Exhibitors include Cartier, Audemars Piguet, JLC, IWC and A. Lange and Sohne. In honor of the show, not only will A. Lange Sohne have their a [...]

If there was such a thing as a pedestrian watch at A. Lange Sohne then it would surely be one of their more basic watches priced under $50,000 like this 1815 Up/Down. Anything over that simply could not be considered ordinary. There of course is jest in my words as A. Lange Sonhe is among the most exclusive high-end brands in the world that giv [...]

As Old Ben Kenobi said while bequeathing to Luke his new lightsaber, An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.? Had he been handing over his old mans wristwatch instead of a futures-past laser sword, a single word need only have been changed to properly describe it.? That is, of course, if the timepiece he was [...]

SIHH 2013 is in full swing and A. Lange Sohne is not pulling any punches. ALS has announced the new 1815 Rattrapante Perpetual Calendar, and it looks to be a complete knockout. Featuring a new Lange calibre, the L.101.1, the 1815 Rattrapante Perpetual Calendar combines some of the most sought after complications into one dazzling package that has been designed as a tribute to early [...]

For 2013 one of the limited edition A. Lange Sohne watches will be this neat looking and very high-end Grand Lange 1 Lumen timepiece. The piece is a mix of a few ideas that Lange has offered over the years. While typically very heavy on the look what cool new stuff we developed, language, German A. Lange Sohne is much more straight-forward in how they di [...]

One of A. Lange Sohnes more quiet new releases for 2012 was this redesigned version of the Grand Lange 1 watch. Last year they released the great looking Lange 1 Daymatic with an automatic movement, and this year the Lange 1s slightly bigger brother gets an update. This model is really something that mostly dedicated A. Lange Sohne fans are going to understand, as it is [...]

Since its birth in 1994, the A. Lange Sohne Lange 1 watch has been the brands most iconic watch. A real gamble at the time, it proved to be a very successful design. You can also thank it for the big date complication that they refer to as an outsized date. Here is a nice picture from A. Lange Sohne with the complete family of all the Lange 1 watches to-date. I tho [...]

One of the top watches that I was excited to see at SIHH 2012 was the updated version of the A. Lange Sohne Datograph. The original Datograph from quite a while ago was an awesome watch and one of Langes best aside from their iconic Lange 1 range. It is one of the only Lange watches you could sort of call sporty, and it was I believe the only Lange watch with a black dia [...]

One theme I noticed at SIHH 2012 was a bit of a return to more classy connoisseur-driven high end watches. Brands like A. Lange Sohne and Greubel Forsey released tourbillon based watches with tourbillons not visible from the dials. For Lange it is this highly useful and complicated creation that pulls at the heart string [...]

One of my favorite A. Lange Sohne watch designs of all time is the famous Datograph and to think the design is over 11 years old now! For 2012 Lange is revisiting the Datrograph with a new and updated model that retains the desirability of the original watch. The new model will be called the Datograph Up/Down (Update: it was origin [...]