A. Lange & Söhne

Held at the Bethanie, a beautiful heritage bldg. on the South side of HK this Sunday morning. The session started at around 10.00am and ended at 12.30 pm., followed by lunch.

I'll let the pics. do the talking:

Hope you all enjoyed the viewing. Many thanks to A. Lange & Sohne and to all involved

in organising this wonderful event.

Cheers

Fernando

 

 

 

 

And the Lange family was present with Benjamin !



Fr.Xavier

more about the House of Lange.Truly amazed at the amount of painstaking hours of dedicated craftsmanship that goes into each of their watches.

Cheers

Fernando

Greatissime pleasure to see...

You were lucky enogh to see and amire some true legends, as the 1815 Moonphase, the Anniversary, and the Luna Mundi...

Without speaking of the Lange 1 Tourbillon, which are among my all time fav pieces!!!

Wow, you made me dream!

Thanks for putting some parts of dream in my rainy and cold Sunday!

Best, my friend.

Nicolas

Felt like i was there!

Good in all of them!

Cheers

Stephen

these are the types of event one must go to. You learn so much about a manufacturer in such a short period of time and it gives you an insight  into their philosophy no amount of reading material or marketing will provide.It also makes you appreciate what you have on your wrist more and value it not in terms of dollars and cents but in the amount of love, dedication, passion and hours of artistic craftsmanship that went into giving it life( mechanically speaking).

Thanks for looking.

Fernando

Because i'm invited to almost all of them! One of my most memorable was still the House of Lange event here in Tokyo last October!

It was indeed wonderful to have a look at some wonderful pieces (this was where i 1st held the Lange 31), and tried hands on with engraving, polishing and assembling! At the end of the day you even got to take home some Lange 1 chocolates( which as a pun,had the normal "expiration date" for foods represented as the "power reserve of 2 weeks" Hahahaha) a certificate with the photos of you and the 3 watchmakers at their respective "stations" and their signature, and even a Lange watch maker's coat with the event details embroidered into it!

And i cannot agree more with you, that no matter how much one's passion is for watches, if he or she just reads from books/magazines, and see photos only on the internet and other media, one cannot fully experience the world of haute horlogerie to the max!

Well, if time permits, and if i'm invited to other events in other countries, i do would love to attend them all!

Speaking of which, i already have a Breguet event coming up this sunday here at the Nicolas G. Hayek centre in Tokyo!

Cheers

Stephen

your excitement with Lange watches, especially some of the out of production LE watches such as your wonderful anniversary piece with the lovely enamel dial.They are amazing works of art!

The new PT. Grand Lange 1 speaks to me loudly and it will probably be next on my hit list.

Best

Fernando

Many thanks for showing them.

The Tourbillon is magnificent.

Fernando,

Thanks very much for the photo report on the House of Lange.

I was actually recovering from a night in Lan Kwai Fong and waiting for my fight out of HKG when you were at the Lange event

Check your PM for our next PuristS GTG in HKG......

Regards,

MTF

I enjoy sharing with fellow purists. We are a global community after all.  I 'm surprised you made it to the airport at all after a night in LKF! LOL  Will check message and respond accordingly.

Cheers

fernando

The location is pretty unique, like a green house.

Glad to see the 3 Masters there ...Manfred, Helmut and the funniest Maik Pfeifer, the GodFather of Finishing
Time flies...the last one in Singapore was on October 2006.

Kong

and so appropriate for the House of Lange to hold this presentation. I forgot to take a shot of the actual bldg. which goes back to the colonial era and is so well preserved. The skylight effect which brings in so much natural lighting is probably a recent addition.

The three masters are in a league of their own with good humour to add.

Cheers

fernando

This message has been edited by fernando on 2008-11-24 12:48:50

Wow ! It seems it was a nice event...
All these legendary watches in the same place...

To also have the master watchmakers each explaining their work with demonstrations is like watching Piccaso paint a masterpiece.A truly gratifying experience for Lange lovers!

I was so busy with my polishing session that I totally forgotten to take any picture.      The repeated reject from Maik during my session can only assure me of the painstaking process that's gone into the making of my piece.     That was easily the most difficult session of the three, for me!