The newest timepiece from A. Lange & Söhne, rendition of the 1815 Tourbillon, is a study in refinement and understatement.
Four years ago, in the 1815 Tourbillon, A. Lange & Söhne first combined the stop-seconds mechanism for the tourbillon with the Zero-Reset time setting feature. Together, the patented mechanisms allowed the watch to be stopped and then set with one-second accuracy. Now, this precision timekeeping instrument has been introduced in an edition limited to 100 pieces with a white enamel dial.
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This special variation of the 1815 Tourbillon melds traditional craftsmanship with modern micromechanics. At first sight, this new timepiece, with its striking yet subtle white enamel dial, is a case study in understatement. However, the large aperture at 6 o’clock alone provides a modest impression of its complexity: it reveals the one-minute tourbillon, suspended beneath a black polished bridge, in action.
This tourbillon doesn’t just offset the influence of gravity. Lange’s experts have engineered a logical refinement of the intricately filigreed complication by adding two patented mechanisms. First introduced in 1997 with the Langematik model, the Zero-Reset mechanism interacts with the stop-seconds mechanism for the tourbillon – patented in 2008 – to assure one-second accuracy when stopping and setting the timepiece.
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The mechanical precision of the manufacture calibre L102.1 movement, which is crowned by a diamond endstone in a screwed gold chaton on the fourth-wheel bridge, can be admired through a sapphire crystal-crystal caseback.
The timepiece’s 39.5-millimetre platinum cases are consecutively numbered and constitute an appealing frame for the perfectly crafted white enamel dial, while details such as the separately printed and red-fired number 12, blued-steel hands, Arabic numerals and a railway-track minute scale represent the classic personality synonymous with legendary nineteenth- and twentieth-century pocket watches.
The 1815 Tourbillon is equipped with a black hand-stitched alligator leather strap secured with a solid-platinum deployant buckle.
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