“Take ten movements out of the current range of any contemporary brand, put them next to a Lange movement, and comment honestly on what you see. That is the best way to judge — by examining the truth. ”
a. lange & söhne was founded in 1845 by ferdinand a. lange; his pocket watches were among the most sought-after timepieces in the world until the second world war arrived and forced the company into a 40-year pause. the brand later got resurrected in 1990 by walter lange, great-grandson of ferdinand adolph lange, a. lange & söhne again have change the german mechanical watchmaking art and even got the swiss to rethink on their work.
Just nine years after the reopening, A. Lange & Söhne come up with many creations, the piece we talked about today is this a Chronographs, While the big-name like Patek, Vacheron, and AP used some outsourcing caliber and modify to fit (mostly Lemania) in their watch, nothing wrong with that because Lemania is also a legendary movement, but A.Lange took it differently, starting from the ground up, they made not only an in-house chronograph movement but also a flyback chronograph.
A. Lange & Söhne consistently raise the bar – in terms of both functionality and aesthetics of the timepiece. You can be lost look at the movement all day! even Philippe Dufour, a living legend of a modern watchmaker, said “range of any contemporary brand, put them next to a Lange movement, and comment honestly on what you see. That is the best way to judge — by examining the truth. “
That's how he thinks how good A. Lange & Söhne watches is !. Back to this model, the 1815 Chronograph Reference 414.032, the dial is clean and not messy; most chronograph dials usually have a busy dial because it got so much reading to tell you, but in this case, it got a perfect balance dial, with "Graduated for 30 Pulsations" used by a doctor back in the day to count off patient heart rate, by starting the chronograph along with counting 30 heartbeats, after that, stop the chronograph and read the outer scale from 200-40 now you got your reading, it also works as a 30-minute recorder to.
The 39.5mm case size is another perfect aspect of this watch; it fits perfectly on any small-medium size wrist, and the thickness is under 11 mm; the Pink gold and white dial go together nicely with blue steel hands contrast the dial. Once you wind the movement, you can tell it's a very put together movement, the feeling when start/stop the chronograph also another thing that set apart a good movement and a great movement, A. Lange & Söhne do set the high standard of watchmaking indeed, Available now at Dunaliga.com.
