Chromatic Fugue
1903
dear Mond
It has been a few days since I picked this one up, and I love it. It is my first Lange since 2008, when I sold my 1815 36 mm. I am delighted to be back in this fold, and a big thanks again to everyone here who weighed in on my earlier posts. A few thoughts:
1. This is a very subtle watch: the more you look at it in the metal, the more you like it. And that's why I ended it buying it.
2. Part of the charm is Lange's decision to overhaul the underlying Lange 1 movement in 2015. Hodinkee put it well: "That is indeed the beauty of Lange -- they do things not because they have to, but because they want to. While their brother and sister brands are recycling the same old movements in new cases, Lange is building entirely new movements for the same cases just because they feel like they should."
3. Aesthetically, the Lange 1 format is very austere yet very beautiful in its mathematical perfection. On this watch, the moonphase and day-night indicators, with their royal-to-navy blue backgrounds and laser-etched stars, remind me of moments in Bach cantatas when the formal structure of the counterpoint veers into a transcendent romanticism.
I am getting carried away. But that is appropriate, both for Bach and for the watch.
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dear Mond
It has been a few days since I picked this one up, and I love it. It is my first Lange since 2008, when I sold my 1815 36 mm. I am delighted to be back in this fold, and a big thanks again to everyone here who weighed in on my earlier posts. A few thought...
"...moments in Bach cantatas when the formal structure of the counterpoint veers into a transcendent romanticism."
Carried away, probably. Extremely (and rightfully) excited about your new timepiece, absolutely!
cantatas ...
OK, perhaps they are even more timeless and sublime than a watch. There's another Bach cantata titled "Ich Habe Genug" ("I Have Enough"); not quite there yet ... Btw, I just noticed this site has an aggressive spellcheck function, which resists typing any...
Your macro of the moon phase indication is just gorgeous.
I guess you feel you made the right choice of Langes.
Simply gorgeous
Apparently, I'm in the queue at my local AD. Your pix make me lust for mine even more. Regards, Alex
Best non-Lange photos of this watch so far!
i especially love the pic of the moonrise and the stars! Congrats on your new Lange and welcome back to the club!!
Thank you Moe!
I have a feeling that this watch and my macro lens will get along quite well ...
Big congrats for this poetic moon, but
"...moments in Bach cantatas..... Pour les francophones seulement : savourer " que ma joie demeure" avec cette montre au poignet est un plaisir inégalé! N'oubliez jamais que l'Epicurien se plaît à rechercher les sources du bonheur!
Perhaps A. Lange & Söhne is the best non indie watch manufacturer in the world at the moment.
If you look at the mega high quality of their entire watch collection, from starter- to most high end watch, there is no other manufacturer that gives this much. And that is non disputable.
