A Lange & Söhne’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. The 1815 collection is known for precision timepieces offered in a wide variety of models including a 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 present reference 233.032 embodies the 1815 heritage with a 40mm diameter pink gold case housing the manual wound L051.1 caliber with 55 hour power reserve, beautifully displayed through the sapphire crystal back. The silvered dial is highlighted by Arabic numerals, blued-steel hands and outer railway-track minute scale. The watch is in excellent overall condition and accompanied by the A. Lange & Söhne warranty dated 2010.