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17th edition of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève: The pre-selected watches

October 10, 2017October 10, 2017 by Editorial Team

Created in 2001 and overseen since 2011 by a foundation recognised as a public interest organisation, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève highlights and annually rewards the most remarkable watchmaking creations. 72 pre-selected watches (see all the watches here) for the 17th edition of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève are competing to win one … Read more

The global personal luxury goods market is highly fragmented. Report

February 17, 2017February 17, 2017 by Editorial Team

Top Vendors in the Global Personal Luxury Goods Market from 2017 to 2021: Report. The global personal luxury goods market is highly fragmented, with the presence of both global vendors and local players, says the recent global personal luxury goods market report by Technavio. This market research report also lists 14 other prominent vendors that … Read more

SIHH 2017 will have the luxury watches trade show’s first-ever public day

December 23, 2016 by Editorial Team

SIHH 2017 in figures: 40 000 of exhibition space; 17 historic watchmaking Maisons; 13 independent artisan-creators; 1 200 accredited journalists. Each year, SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA HAUTE HORLOGERIE (SIHH) transforms Geneva, Calvin’s city, into a hotbed of innovation while reconnecting it with centuries of history. Since 1991, SIHH has been the one event not to … Read more

SIHH 2016: New decor, new arrivals, new exhibition, and first Carré des Horlogers at first luxury watch show of the year

January 29, 2016January 14, 2016 by Editorial Team

“Carré des Horlogers” is the new buzzword at SIHH 2016. The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) held in Geneva marks the beginning of the watchmaking year. SIHH 2016, Fine Watchmaking’s foremost trade fair, will lift the veil on a new interior decor at its 26th edition, to be held January 18th to 22nd, … Read more

5th Handwerkskunst edition: A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Tourbillon. Limited to 30 watches.

December 10, 2015 by Editorial Team

Luxury German watch manufacture A. Lange & Söhne concluded a year of celebrating F. A. Lange’s 200th birthday with a grand jubilee celebration in Dresden – and the presentation of a new limited Handwerkskunst model. In homage to F. A. Lange, A. Lange & Söhne
presented the masculine 1815 TOURBILLON HANDWERKSKUNST, a 39.5mm rose gold watch which will be introduced to the world at the Salon
International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH, January, 2016).

“It is A. Lange & Söhne’s fifth Handwerkskunst edition featuring extraordinary dial and movement decorations: its black-rhodium pink gold dial is decorated with elegant tremblage engraving and the tourbillon bridge and upper part of the cage are elaborately black-polished.

Limited to 30 watches, the special-edition model with a very large tourbillon at 6 o’clock is available in a pink-gold case with a diameter of 39.5 millimeters.

With their dials and movements endowed with rare finissage and engraving techniques, each model is limited to only very few pieces. From left to right: RICHARD LANGE TOURBILLON “Pour le Mérite” HANDWERKSKUNST (2011), ZEITWERK HANDWERKSKUNST (2012), LANGE 1 TOURBILLON PERPETUAL CALENDAR HANDWERKSKUNST (2013), LANGE 1 TOURBILLON HANDWERKSKUNST (2014) and 1815 TOURBILLON HANDWERKSKUNST.

As part of the grand jubilee celebration, Reima Koivukoski was awarded this year’s “F. A. Lange Watchmaking Excellence Award”. With his design of a calendar-week display, he is the second student of “Kelloseppäkoulu – The Finnish School of Watchmaking” in a row to impress A. Lange & Söhne expert jury. For the sixth year running, the competition highlights the importance of sustainable funding of watchmaker trainings for the future of fine-watchmaking.

A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Minute Repeater – what you hear is what you see

November 23, 2015 by Editorial Team

A. Lange & Söhne – The perfect sound of time or how to experience the sound and mechanism of the decimal minute repeater.

The 2015 Zeitwerk Minute Repeater watch unveiled by celebrated Swiss luxury watch manufacture A. Lange & Söhne for its 200th anniversary celebrates musical harmony, the perfection of sound, and the musical instruments crafted in Saxony for centuries, especially around the town of Markneukirchen in the Vogtlandkreis district.

As A. Lange & Söhne’s master makers intended, the new horological work of art achieves perfect sonority offering an exceptional music experience. The new timepiecs is a fine-tuned mechanical musical instrument for the wrist where what you hear is what you see (see the movie above with the working principle).

“In a chiming watch, as in musical instruments, the physical laws that govern acoustic phenomena are key to achieving sounds of superior quality and reverberant volume. The case material, the size and shape of the gongs, the way they are secured to the movement, the number of moving parts – every detail counts,” says A. Lange & Sohne. The mechanism chimes a low-pitched tone for each hour, a double tone for each elapsed ten-minute period, and a high-pitched tone for each elapsed minute. The time as sounded corresponds exactly to the time as displayed.

Special measuring technologies and a musically trained ear are essential in the development of a minute repeater for optimising the individual acoustic parameters down to the finest of nuances. It begins with loudness. The volume of the sound must be perceptible but not overbearing. Its fullness and purity must be compelling to the connoisseur. The rhythm and cadence of the sounds should express pleasant musicality. The gongs must harmonize perfectly with one another. All the while, any chatter of the striking mechanism must be reduced to the absolute minimum.

“It was a formidable challenge for Lange’s product developers to fulfil all of these criteria,” added the team.

As is commonplace for high-end musical instruments, the gongs are tuned exclusively by hand until they thoroughly harmonise with each other. In the end, they both sound full and pure.

After its debut at this year’s SIHH, the 2015 Zeitwerk Minute Repeater has now been awarded the first prize at the “Premio Tiempo
de Relojes 2015” in the category for high-complication watches – “Alta complicación”.