For years, Lange saved the Lumen sequence and their nutso problems separate. However then, like a nihilist making an attempt to unravel the trolley downside, swiftly, these tracks have been merged, and this doozy of a watch exploded onto this 12 months’s Watches and Wonders. Throw within the hardly ever used Honeygold alloy into the combination, and you’ve got a watch that theoretically might tick virtually each single field {that a} Lange collector would possibly search for in a restricted version of simply 50 items.
Okay, it is not like Lange had no purpose to launch this watch this 12 months. It’s, in any case, the twenty fifth anniversary of the Datograph, and that is an vital quantity for the model. Having been lucky sufficient to have seen this watch a number of occasions this 12 months, I do know that this watch by no means will get previous. Generally, it is easy to take Lange’s watchmaking with no consideration behind their stoic dials that you just want the subtlety of a brick to the face to remind you of all of the craziness that’s behind a chronograph with a giant date with a moon part with a perpetual calendar with a tourbillon on the again. What’s loopy is that this is not even my favourite Lange of the 12 months. However in the case of problems, this one cannot depart my thoughts.
–TanTan Wang, Editor
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