Lang & Heyne Augustus and Moritz of Sachsen

DonCorson · 2014-04-09T00:30:28Z

Explore Lang & Heyne's unique Augustus complication and Moritz of Sachsen perpetual calendar from BaselWorld 2014, plus insights into their collaboration with Leinfelder.

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DonCorson's report from BaselWorld 2014 highlights Lang & Heyne's innovative 'Augustus' complication, designed to mechanically calculate the age of important people in the owner's life. This piece offers a unique look into the brand's bespoke approach to horology and its commitment to exceptional decoration. Readers gain insight into the brand's creative direction and its collaboration with Leinfelder.

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BaselWorld 2014 - Lang & Heyne

This year Marco Lang of Lang & Heyne showed his new complication the Augustus which calculates the age of people who are important for you. This watch is programmed with the names and dates of the those people when it is manufactured . Then you always have this information as well as their age with you when you travel. As each watch will be made to order each owner can have their watch programmed as they wish. Of course the entire calculation is completely mechanical, so the programming is not trivial.

The complication is invisible under the dial which leaves the bridge side free for the exceptional decoration for which Marco Lang's watches are known.

Marco also showed his Moritz of Sachsen perpetual calendar with moon phase and declination angle to the sun.

Note that Marco's watch always runs perfectly.

Marco Lang's big news, however is his collaboration with Leinfelder in Munich to whom he is providing new "reasonable cost" movements. As we can see, the movement exists in prototypes and production is being built up in Dresden at this time.
I really like the architecture of this movement with a separate cock for each wheel and the simple but effective brushed decoration. But if it can really be made in quantities at a reasonable price with all those parts remains to be seen. (As we can see each cock has 2 pins and 1 screw that need to be made and assembled. A multi-cock movement has a lot of parts and assembly work.)
The gold watch from Leinfelder is a very conservative but pleasant design, the colored ones, well lets say there is much room for improvement.

I wish them much luck in this venture.

This message has been edited by DonCorson on 2014-04-09 00:31:33

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The Augustus complication, which calculates the age of important people, is a delightful and unique feature, prompting one user to wish it could also track their own age.
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Spellbound

Apr 9, 2014

Thanks for this report. What a delightful complication in the Augustus. Should also include my own name and birthdate as I often forget how old I am ! Dean

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