Memorial Walter Lange Special Edition Stainless Steel Replica Watch

The 1815 “Homage to Walter Lange” commemorates Walter Lange’s special edition stainless steel watch with stopable jumping seconds, black enamel dial and stainless steel case. With this unique and precious piece, Lange pays tribute to the great man who brought precision watchmaking back to Glashütte in 1990, and at the same time shows the outstanding traditions of the Saxon watchmaking dynasty.

On the second morning of the 2017 Geneva International Haute Horlogerie Fair, the sad news of Mr. Walter Lange’s death suddenly came and shocked the replica watches world. The news spread quickly, and many visitors spontaneously went to the Lange exhibition hall to pay tribute to the late legend. As the president of Lange & Co., Wihelm Schmid was also asked how he would commemorate Mr. Lange. He said: “The best way to commemorate Walter Lange is to ensure that the company he founded can continue according to its vision and wishes Development.” Now, Lange, through the 1815 “Homage to Walter Lange” watch, fully demonstrates the founder’s wishes and personality to the world.
The 1815 “Homage to Walter Lange” with a black enamel dial and a stainless steel case is unique in the world. Just like the soul behind the watch, unique. The design of the classic dial removes the leftovers, and the attached jumping seconds hand further demonstrates the technical characteristics of the fake watches. This combination lives up to Walter Lange’s ideal watch.
The jumping seconds function is one of Walter Lange’s favorite complex devices, so the function embodies the pure concept of precision watchmaking and symbolizes part of the family history. This jumping second device does not divide a second into multiple steps according to the amplitude of the balance wheel, but regards it as a continuous unit of time. The watch has a button at 2 o’clock to start and stop the second hand. This watchmaking concept can be traced back to the invention of Ferdinand Adolph in 1867; his son Richard Lange incorporated this function into the self-developed movement device China, and obtained one of the first German patents in 1877. Subsequently, this “one-second movement with beating hands” was first applied to timepieces by his second son, Emil Lange (also the grandfather of Walter Lange). A total of more than 300 Lange pocket watches are equipped with this function. Like the 1815 “Homage to Walter Lange”, these pocket watches are equipped with a separate small seconds dial. Buyers include Leipzig Observatory, Grand Duke Adolph of Luxembourg, Ernst Abbe, owner of Carl Zeiss founded in Jena, and the British system Watch master Sir John Bennett (Sir John Bennett).
To pay tribute to this great man who has devoted his life to watchmaking craftsmanship, Lange produced this unique treasure and took inspiration from the design of historical pocket watches, embellishing the work with black enamel dials, traditional train track minute scales, and polished hands. The newly developed movement is specially named L1924, which represents the birth year of Walter Lange. The first three digits of watch model 297.078 are reminiscent of his date of birth-July 29.
The 40.5 mm case of the 1815 “Homage to Walter Lange” was cast in stainless steel. In history, Lange used this material only in a very small number of special replica watches. In addition to this unique stainless steel work, Lange also launched the 1815 “Homage to Walter Lange” special edition watch in 18K yellow gold, 18K white gold and 18K rose gold. The stainless steel masterpieces are planned for charity auctions in 2018. I believe that Walter Lange, who is actively involved in philanthropy, will definitely approve of this arrangement.