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AnthonyTsai reports on A. Lange & Söhne's "F. A. Lange Watchmaking Excellence Award," an annual competition for young watchmaking talents. This initiative underscores the brand's dedication to fostering future generations of horological artisans and preserving traditional watchmaking skills. The competition, endowed with a 10,000 euro prize, challenges participants with complex tasks like designing a second time zone display.
Young Talents Competition
Eight young watchmakers from international watchmaking schools take part in this year's „F. A. Lange Watchmaking Excellence Award". The competition is endowed with 10,000 euros prize money.
The participants of this year's competition on a guided tour of the Lange manufactory. 
For the fourth time, A. Lange & Söhne invited young watchmaking talents from all over the world to enter the competition that was established in honor of Ferdinand A. Lange, the founder of fine watchmaking in Saxony. Eight young men from watchmaking schools in Germany, Austria, Japan, Denmark, Finland, France and the Netherlands have qualified for participation.
At the beginning of June, they visited the Lange manufactory in Glashütte, Saxony. After a tour of the workshops, the participants set to work themselves on the assembly of a three-quarter-plate and the engraving of a balance cock. Tours of the Glashütte Watch Museum and the Mathematics and Physics Salon in Dresden, sponsored by A. Lange & Söhne, rounded off the programme.
The task set in this year's competition is the "construction of a second time zone display on the basis of an ETA 4567 movement". The submitted works will be reviewed by a jury of watch experts. The winner will be announced at the beginning of December. The prize money of 10,000 euros is earmarked for advanced studies in the field of watchmaking.
Introduction to the exciting world of Lange's fine watchmaking at the manufactory's showroom. 
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About A. Lange & Söhne
When Ferdinand A. Lange, a Dresden watchmaker, established his watch manufactory in 1845, he laid the cornerstone of Saxony's precision watchmaking. His precious pocket watches remain highly coveted among collectors all over the world. The company was expropriated after World War II, and the name A. Lange & Söhne nearly fell into oblivion. In 1990, Ferdinand A. Lange's great-grandson Walter Lange had the courage to relaunch the brand. Today, Lange crafts only a few thousand wristwatches in gold or platinum per year. They are endowed exclusively with proprietary movements that are lavishly decorated and assembled by hand. In a period of little more than 20 years, A. Lange & Söhne developed over 40 manufacture calibres and secured a top-tier position among the world's finest watch brands. Its greatest successes include innovative time-keeping instruments such as the LANGE 1 with the first outsize date in a series produced wristwatch as well as the LANGE ZEITWERK with its supremely legible, precisely jumping numerals. Meanwhile, both models have become icons of a brand rich in tradition.
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A second timezone? Humm.... What about in the future an 1815 "travel watch"? :) Fx
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