I know I am beginning to sound like Eliza Doolittle but after an anxious wait of six months, I can hardly contain my excitement when the time piece arrives. This is the 1815 Tourbillon with black enamel dial. In the flesh, the watch surpassed my expectati
Two new releases RICHARD LANGE JUMPING SECONDS: 100 watches in white gold with a pink-gold dial and a 1815 TOURBILLON: 50 watches in platinum with a jet-black enamel dial https://www.alange-soehne.com/hk-en/timepieces/richard-lange/richard-lange-jumping-s
Four factors: 1.) Readability of the date. The good news is that Langes are now (reasonably - I don’t have any limited editions) within reach for me as an enthusiast. The bad news is that the decades I’ve spent working in front of computer screens in orde
It works by linking a stopping bar to a small snail cam. As the power reserve runs down, the snail cam is engaged and gradually draws in a stopping bar to interrupt the second hand at exactly the 0-seconds position at the end of its current revolution. Th
Thank you for the welcome, armanico. I admire your collection too. Yes: a quartet is a nice number for me and means that I always retain three with one in for service over a 4-year cycle. I do like odd numbers though - 3 or 5 - and if I upped my collectio
At the NYC Boutique.... The Zeitwerk in Platinum is outstanding... but man... that 1815 tourbillon with the enamel dial is out of this world 🫶 The staff: amazing and super friendly 🍻
The dial on the Langematik Anniversary that I wear has a bunch of little things that are visible with a loupe. There are some tiny dark spots, and some of the black printing is too light/missing (like in the word "Glashutte"). There's also a semicircular
... is that Donzé Cadrans made the Langematik Anniversary enamel dials, per a reference by Peter Chong. More recently, starting around 2018 I believe (with the 1815 Tourbillon), Lange started making enamel dials in-house for smaller runs. FX provided this