The A. Lange & Sohne 1815 Tourbillon Watch Review

The A. Lange & Sohne 1815 Tourbillon Watch Review

The A. Lange & Sohne 1815 Tourbillon Watch Review

Whenever you consider tourbillons 

The A. Lange & Sohne 1815 Tourbillon Watch Review

Along with a. Lange and Sohne, my prediction is the first thought would go to the Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon, or possibly the bonkers Tourbograph. I recieve it, however the 1815 Tourbillon deserves some attention too, and Lange just announced a brand new special edition version having a vibrant white-colored enamel dial.

For individuals that do not recall - or rested on Stephen's excellent consider the 1815 Tourbillon from the couple in the past - this really is no casual tourbillon. Initially announced in 2014, the 1815 Tourbillon mixes Lange's classic subtlety by having an expansive and superbly performed tourbillon visible at six around the dial. Reluctant to simply slap a tourbillon onto it and refer to it as day, the 1815 Tourbillon rocks an imaginative patented Zero-Reset mechanism that zeros the seconds hands alongside an end-seconds feature that halts the tourbillon.

As tourbillons were typically used to 

Guarantee the precision of the watch in a variety of positions, Lange (wisely) considered it sensible to possess a way of rapidly and simply setting the timepiece towards the nearest second. So, whenever you pull the crown out, the movement resets the seconds hands to zero and stops the tourbillon, enabling you to restart in coordination with another time. It's nerdy, highly technical, and incredibly Lange.

With this 100-piece special edition, the 1815 Tourbillon with Enamel Dial, the 39.5mm situation is made in platinum and measures a wearable but noticeable 11.3mm thick (the whole structure from the enamel dial makes up about .2mm of this). The dial is really the only change here, however the enamel constitutes a strong statement that simply sets this version in addition to the previous iterations from the 1815 Tourbillon. It's crisp, smooth smooth, and a very good base for the black polished tourbillon bridge and also the lengthy blued steel hands.

Small details, like using red for that 12 marker (which needs to be individually put on the dial), the superbly made railway minutes scale, or even the means by which Lange could perfectly flush fit the mounting for that tourbillon bridge in to the enamel, really alllow for an excellent-searching watch. Furthermore, this mixture from the old-school marine chronometer aesthetic works rather well using the open and technical consider the ticking tourbillon.

That ticking is supplied 

With a. Lange & Sohne's L102.1 hands-wound movement. The L102.1 is visible using a full azure situation back and, possibly unsurprisingly, it's worth a great lengthy look. Hands carried out with plates constructed from German silver, the L102.1 includes a power reserve of 72 hrs while offering hrs, minutes, and seconds (using a blued steel hands suited to the main one-minute tourbillon).

In explaining the brand's reasoning behind creating an enamel dial form of the 1815 Tourbillon, Anthony de Haas, Director of Product in a. Lange & Sohne stated, "The enamel dial accentuates the classic design, that is adapted from Lange’s pocket watches using their Arabic numerals, chemin de fer minute scale and blued steel hands. The fundamental idea ended up being to develop a credible bridge in the origins of watchmaking to the current."