Celebrating The Birth Of A Master

A Lange & Söhne marks the anniversary of its founding with three watches named after the birth year of its founder.

- Wei-Yu Wang

For The 175th anniversary of Ferdinand Adolph Lange founding the company that bears his name, A Lange & Söhne presents three 1815 models with the suffix, Homage to FA Lange. All three models are in honey gold, the brand’s proprietary wear-resistant gold alloy, which is rarely seen due to the difficulty it imposes on the manufacturing process. This material has been used in only eight limited editions since its introduction 10 years ago.

The three releases are hugely varied in complexity, with the essence of simplicity offered by the 1815 Thin Honeygold (S$49,900, limited to 175 pieces). The 1815 watch family represents the classic heritage of A Lange & Söhne and it does not get much more elegant than this: a manually wound two-hander with white enamelled dial, understated at 38mm in diameter and supremely elegant at just 6.3mm thick. This makes it the first ultra-thin in the 1815 line-up and its first two-hander as well.