One of A. Lange & Söhne’s most iconic travel watches, the Lange 1 Time Zone, has been given a spruce up 15 years after its debut, with a new calibre, and new daylight saving time indication.
Knowing the time where you are is pretty important. However, knowing the time at home when you’re on the move is a close second. This second time zone feature is something that many watch brands have tried to incorporate into their timepieces, with varied success. The Lange 1 Time Zone was one of those successes and remains a timepiece favoured by travellers from around the globe.
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A. Lange & Söhne has now updated this classic watch, with the Lange 1 Time Zone now boasting a Caliber L 141.1 movement, while combining functionality with eminent legibility and superb craftsmanship. The new-look timepiece’s personality is characterised by an asymmetric dial with two time displays, an outsize date, and a power-reserve indicator. Available in three case/dial combinations, the new rendition also retains the switchable city ring that allows the convenient setting of the second time zone.
One of the key innovations of the new timepiece is that the day/night indicators for home time and zone time, originally displayed with rotating arrow hands, have been shifted to the centres of the two time circles. There, together with the hour hand, they inform the user whether the time indication applies to the first or second half of the day. The ring-shaped day/night indicators are not only harmoniously designed, but they are also intuitively readable, which comes in handy when you’re on the move.
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Featuring blue printed semicircles, the discs rotate once about their axes in 24 hours while the hour hand performs two revolutions in the same period. When it is located in the dial-colour segment, the display spans the period from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on the blue background from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
If you’re one of those guys that always get caught off-guard by daylight saving, you’re in luck. The new Lang 1 Time Zone also features a new daylight saving indicator; f the aperture of the dial’s golden arrow is red, the respective city has a daylight saving time regime. If standard time applies to the city all year round, the display appears on a bright background. This feature is technically implemented with coding on the underside of the city ring.
The dimensions of the new Lange 1 Time Zone remain unchanged. The case has a diameter of 41.9 millimetres and a height of 10.9 millimetres, and is available in three case/dial combinations: white gold/black, pink gold/argenté, and – in a limited edition of 100 – yellow gold/champagne.
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