1815
A living legend is this traditional collection, it draws from historic A. Lange & Söhne pocket watch designs. The range is a tribute to the watch company’s original founder, Ferdinand A. Lange, who was born in 1815 and Raised by foster parents who attended to him greatly and paid for his technical studies. Ferdinand had great ambition, to learn the craft of watchmaking he went abroad visiting France, Switzerland and England. At thirty he established his own watchmaking workshop in Glashütte where he started to produce his first timepieces.
F. A. Lange was a truly pioneering spirit in the industry. It was he who started to use the metric system in watchmaking. Before that tradition decreed that the historic French ligne system of measurement be used. He introduced his own novel approaches – for instance, for a more stable anchoring of the movement, he used a single, large three-quarter plate bridge and he had many more patents to his name. Today, the collection featuring those characteristic Arabic numerals, a railway-track minute scale and blued steel hands, is famed for its grand complications, including perpetual calendars and tourbillons with the Tourbograph model having become a true phenomenon.
F. A. Lange was a truly pioneering spirit in the industry. It was he who started to use the metric system in watchmaking. Before that tradition decreed that the historic French ligne system of measurement be used. He introduced his own novel approaches – for instance, for a more stable anchoring of the movement, he used a single, large three-quarter plate bridge and he had many more patents to his name. Today, the collection featuring those characteristic Arabic numerals, a railway-track minute scale and blued steel hands, is famed for its grand complications, including perpetual calendars and tourbillons with the Tourbograph model having become a true phenomenon.
Something more…
The 1815 line includes two models of the Handwerkskunst category – highly limited editions of artistically hand-worked timepieces featuring a manually embellished dial. As regards the 1815 Rattrapante Perpetual Calendar Handwerkskunst, both the dial and bridges are dotted with stars. What truly stands out among the many features that this exclusive chronograph watch has are the chrono sweep-seconds hand and the perpetual calendar. 