製造商: A. Lange & Söhne 年份: Circa 2015 型號: 236.049 機芯編號: 111’992 錶殼號碼: No. 88/200, 220’288 型號名稱: 1815 Anniversary F. A. Lange 材料: Platinum 機芯: Manual, cal. L.051.1, 23 jewels 錶帶/ 錶鏈: Leather 錶扣: Platinum A. Lange & Söhne buckle 尺寸: 40mm Diameter 簽名: Case, dial, movement and buckle signed 配件: Accompanied by A. Lange & Söhne Guarantee dated 5 June, 2015, presentation box, leather envelope with product literature, and outer packaging.
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Released in 2015, the 1815 Anniversary F.A. Lange limited edition wristwatch commemorates the 200th anniversary of the firm’s founder, Ferdinand Adolph Lange, born in Dresden on 18 February 1815. The brand’s 1815 collection was launched in 1999 as a tribute to their founder honoring his exacting standards and precision quality movements, which today resemble pocket watches made during Ferdinand’s time. They feature three-quarter plates, blued screws, hand-engraved balance cocks, and gold chatons. Lange worked diligently to consistently reproduce movements in a move toward standardization and better timekeeping, as well as advance mechanical standards. In 1879, A. Lange & Söhne was granted patent number 9349 for a pocket watch movement that indicated how much time remained before a watch was fully unwound, which today collectors know as a power reserve. The 1815 collection is known for precision timepieces in a wide variety of models including the Grande Complication masterpiece, annual calendars and chronographs, perpetual calendars with split-seconds, and time only wristwatches like the present lot. Each model is a tribute to the horological traditions Ferdinand Adolph Lange sought to achieve with one common design attribute found on each model: the railway-track minute scale. The reference 236.049 is a quintessential timepiece that defines the classic iconic wristwatches from this famed brand. This limited edition 1815 Anniversary F. A. Lange wristwatch is number 88 of 200 and offered in excellent condition complete with box and papers. The platinum case is elegantly offset by the black dial with a strong masculine appeal, and powered by the caliber L051.1 with hand engraved balance cock. The present model is a wonderful addition to any collection, both for its rarity and technical excellence.
Originally founded in 1845 by Ferdinand Adolph Lange in Glashütte, Dresden, Germany, the firm established an entire watchmaking culture and industry in Glashütte. The brand quickly became Germany's finest watchmaker, first creating dependable, easy-to-repair watches before going on to produce some of the world's finest complicated pocket watches, including Grande Sonnerie watches, tourbillon watches and Grande Complications.
On the final day of World War II, their factories were destroyed by Russian bombers, and in 1948 the brand was confiscated by the Soviet Union. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, Ferdinand's great grandson Walter Lange re-established the brand with the objective to once again produce top-quality luxury watches. Now part of the Richemont Group, its original vintage and modern creations are highly coveted by collectors. Key models from the modern era include the Lange 1, Pour Le Mérite Tourbillon and the Zeitwerk.