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Time Is In Our Hands : The Lange Connoisseur's Akademie
I posted some initial pics with my phone cam of the recent Lange Akademie. Here are the official and much better pics 
of this fantastic event. Once again, congrats to the Lange Team for conceiving this and executing this to near perfection. I have no commercial ties or vested interest with Lange. I am just a humble owner and fan who was fortunate enough to be invited to be part of the Akademie.
The event took place at the Novus Restaurant located within the historic confies of the Singapore National Museum.
This was the main presentation area at the Novus Restaurant where Joanna Lange and Manfred Webber would give us insights into the refined world of Lange
As part of the night's "lessons", we were taught the figure 8 polishing techinique. Below are some minute components awaiting polishing at the hands of the night's apprentices
Diamond paper of varying grades and corseness for polishing...
The VIP dining area shrouded behind heavy curtain partiions during the lessons revealed a foodie's nirvana later in the night...
More pics to follow...
The Evening's Events
The lovely Joanna Lange sharing her passion of Lange while demonstrating how the Lange patented "stop" mechanism works on the tourbillon.. Sifu Manfred Webber demonstraing how the minute movement parts are readied for polishing.. A keen participant taking...
The Press Release
Press release : “Time Is In Our Hands” The Connoisseur’s Akademie by A. Lange & Söhne Singapore – Following the success of the Connoisseurs’ Akadamie events last year, German watch making powerhouse A. Lange & Söhne, recently kick started the 2012...
Nice event!
Great event! Those tiny screws sure look difficult to position! It's amazing that such time consuming practices are still practiced in today's fast paced world. Thank you for the photos Arthur! Umm, any pics of the food?
I'm afraid not. And me not being a foodie
I did not take any aprt from the choco deserts :-)
Thanks a lot Arthur for the report!
If only we coud have a Lange Akademie event in Paris! Fx
I'm not sure but I think they are thinking of rolling out
the Akademie in select European cities and I'd be surprised if Paris was not one of them.
"polishing techinique"
Was it a success, for the participants? Have you been patient enough? ... Just wondering :-) Thanks a lot, for sharing with us! Oliver
