A. Lange & Söhne

sidneyc
2009

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Never so close up before...

Firstly, I have to thank Edwin for letting us know his secret of being able to take such breathtaking photos of his amazing collection, especially with all those close-up details of the movements and dials that all of us drool over!

So being heavily inspired by Edwin's fantastic works of art, I have bought a set of the extension tubes to try out and over the weekend I've had lots of fun trying to get as close as possible to the watch without bumping into it

I have to say I am very surprised with what turned out in the photos, showing the amount of work that Lange have put into such a microscopic scale! I even wonder because it's not even visible to the bare eye, that effort is there only for the people that know! I hope you guys don't mind me sharing what I see through the lens and extension tube... please pardon the dust particles in the photos... Sydney is a VERY dusty place! and also pardon the slightly off white balance!

First up.. the iconic big date.. nothing spectacular.. just that I haven't seen it so close up before...


Then the second hand at 6 o'clock.. I have seen many pictures of Lange watches having concentric circles on the dial where the second hand is, and with my bare eyes, I could not see any signs of circles inside the second hand subdial. Before I have the extension tube, the closest photo to the seconds subdial still reveal no surprises. Needless to say I was disappointed about that and I thought the Langematik missed out on such work of detail... until I took this photo:

It all looked normal to me when viewing the full picture, but when I zoomed into 100% I was in awe!!

The circles were so fine, that there were around 15 circles spanning the length of the second markers, so for the whole of the seconds sub dial, there would be over 100 concentric circles not visible to the naked eye! Boy, am I excited that they are indeed there!!!
Then it's the meticulously engraved balance cock:

and zoomed in... I can't believe someone did this BY HAND! Simply beautiful! The fact that you can see tiny irregularities in the patterns makes each piece even more unique!

And finally arguably the most beautiful automatic rotor in the world of horology, and I'm not the first person to have a photo this close...

and again, in greater detail... however, can anybody confirm whether the rotor is hand engraved? The little "pebble-like" texture, must be a huge amount of work if it's done by hand, especially having to do the letters and the brushed effect around that texture as well!


The more details I see of my Langematik, the more I love it!!