A. Lange & Söhne

Per my earlier family photo post, you can see that the baseplate has an unexpectedly technical silhouette for such a simple caliber. This arises from the incorporation of the exposed winding and power reserve train, together with the click and long, fine click spring - each in steel. Mine also features perlage below the click spring whereas some earlier examples of this caliber did not.

The 7 screwed gold chatons are also a highlight - among the most on any manually wound Lange calibre behind the current Lange 1 and Lange 1 Moon Phase (each with 8 - a particularly auspicious number!) and the original Grand Lange 1 (with 9).

Lange's use of colour in its movements presents an astoundingly sweet and memorable visual palette - since copied but never equalled or exceeded. Their use of untreated German silver - a nickel, copper & zinc alloy called "Maillechort" in French - for the baseplate is the foundation against which the other elements and the finnisage shine. It also adds nice weight to the movement (compared to brass) and satisfying additional heft to the watch.

I am a garden-variety photographer with an iPhone and no rig - but I did manage to catch a particularly good diffuse light (from a nearby window on a cloudy but bright day) in this photo and it perfectly highlights all of Lange's finnisage, and also the case engravings by Efteor (the engravings by each of Lange's four case maker's are each slightly different in appearance). Like my previous individual photo of the front of this watch, I took this one on the day I bought it so everything you see here is mint fresh!

Enjoy,  aviya.

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