A. Lange & Söhne

Managed to get my hamds on a fairly comprehensive collection of Lange catalogues and yearbooks today. Luckily, my wife was not home when they were delivered…. Been wearing the 191.028 all day. Lucky coincidence. ...  

The catalogs will get a so called ‘delayed product introduction’? 😁 I suppose we’re all guilty to different extents 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

How far back do the catalogs go? The softcover one you posted looks like the cover of 1995-6.

I will be diving into this over the weekend.

What a great find and acquisition! Should be a lot of fun reading through it...lots of great information I'm sure! Great L1 too...lovely!

Congratulations, that looks very good. A good time reading. I also love the litareture to my watches. It's a pity, unfortunately the trend is moving away from printed catalogs more and more! especially at Lange&Söhne. ...  

Would you pls post a pic of a page talking about the older brother of your watch, the ref 101.027 if available? Thx!

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...that the "date window" on the books have a preceding "0" on the single digit date vs the lack of one in all their watches. Anyone know if there was a specific reason to forego the '0' or if it was a change at some point? Very cool books, nonetheless!

The book covers were a clever take on the Big Date concept.

With the Langes I have since bought over many years, I have repaid the cost of the catalogues I was given early on. Sure: I understand that’s now the old-fashioned way - but Lange still incorporates traditional ways of doing things in it watches (thank go...