While the brand has launched over 70 in-house calibers since 1991, the frantic race for new models has no place there. The second model unveiled this year during Watches and Wonders Shanghai is the Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar, a fine opportunity to reaffirm A.Lange & Söhne’s absolute mastery of precision, energy management and design. A 41.9mm platinum case, a black solid silver dial and a tone-on-tone large date display – so much for its exterior characteristics. As far as the mechanical part is concerned, it features an impressive number of technical “details” that tend towards the same goal of precision. Perpetual calendar with jumping displays for the date, month and leap year; moon phases coupled to the minute hand (rather than the hour hand) with integrated day/night indicator thanks to a sky disk dissociated from the engraved moon… These “details”, which in fact are far more than that, are just as impressive as the legibility of this timepiece, which stands out as a variation on a technical theme already well-known at A.Lange & Sohne and of which we are unlikely to tire any time soon.
The editorial team was impressed by technical sophistication dedicated to serving elegance and functionality, illustrated by the integration of the day/night function on the moon phase, which visually simplifies the dial design.
Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar
CASE: 950/1000 platinum, sapphire caseback
SIZE: 41.9mm
MOVEMENT: mechanical self-winding (Caliber L021.3, 50h power reserve)
FUNCTIONS: hours, minutes, small seconds, perpetual calendar with jumping displays for the large date, day of the week, month and leap year; moon phases with integrated day/night indicator
DIAL: black solid silver
STRAP: leather, platinum pin buckle
PRICE: on request
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