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Brand  :	A. Lange & Söhne
Collection  :	165 Years - Homage to F.A Lange
Model  :	Tourbograph 'Pour le Mérite'
Reference  :	712.050
Nber of pieces :	50
Complement :	Honey gold
On sale :	2010

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• Brand  :	A. Lange & Söhne
  Collection  :	165 Years - Homage to F.A Lange
  Model  :	Tourbograph 'Pour le Mérite'
  Reference  :	712.050
  Nber of pieces :	50
  Complement :	Honey gold
  On sale :	2010
  List Price :	On request
  Diameter :	41.2 mm
  Thickness :	14.2 mm
  Styles :	High Horology
  Types :	Hand-winding
  Calibre :	Lange L903.0
  Calibre distinction :	Hand decorated Hand-engraved Assembled by hand
  Complication :	Power Reserve Indicator Tourbillon 30-Minute Counter Chronograph with Rattrapante
  Case material :	Honey gold
  Case peculiarity :	Sapphire caseback hardness 9
  Shape :	Round
  Dial :	Silver Engraved Gold
  Display :	Blued steel hands Chrono hands in gold-plated steel
  Indexes :	Arabic numerals Railroad
  Glass :	Sapphire Antireflective coating hardness 9
  Strap material :	Crocodile leather
  Strap color :	Dark Brown
  Strap clasp :	Pin buckle
  + More characteristics :	Tourbillon with fusée- and-chain transmission Movement 43 jewels. of which 2 diamond endstones 465 parts (not including chain). of which tourbillon cage : 84 633 part of chain Precision-adjusted in five positions Plates and bridges made of untreated German silver Chronograph bridge engraved by hand Lever escapement  Shock-resistant glucydur screw balance Superior-quality balance spring manufactured in-house Frequency:  21 600 semi-oscillations/hour Power reserve: 36 hours  Rattrapante push-button at 10 o’clock Hand-stitched red-brown strap Lange prong buckle in solid honey-coloured gold

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• 165 Years – Homage to F. A. Lange Collection 

  
  

  Three exceptional timepieces demonstrate the capabilities of A. Lange & Söhne

  
  

  With a special collection of exceptional complications, A. Lange & Söhne commemo- rates the spiritual legacy of the founder of Germany’s precision watchmaking industry. Presented in a novel gold alloy of hitherto unmatched hardness, the trilogy consisting of the TOURBOGRAPH “Pour le Mérite”, the LANGE 1 TOURBILLON, and the 1815 MOONPHASE manifests the horological heritage of Ferdinand Adolph Lange enriched with contemporary ingenuity and artisanal virtuosity.
  
  
  It was in 1845 when Ferdinand Adolph Lange moved from the splendour of pala- tial Dresden to the remote and impoverished mining town of Glashütte to make his dream of the ideal watch manufactory come true. He did it with the intention of crafting the world’s finest timepieces. Aware of the fact that today’s innovation is tomorrow’s standard, he evolved to be- come a staunch reformist to whom preci- sion watchmaking owes numerous inven- tions and enhancements. For instance, he was among the first members of his guild to adopt metric units of measurement and abandon the then prevalent but complicated Parisian ligne system. His work was characterised by the quest for supreme precision. The drafts for mechanisms of his own design, even the most complicated ones, were exemplary as regards clarity of engineering and layout. His values remain the bench- mark that inspires the work of all Lange employees. 
  
  
  The “165 Years – Homage to F.A. Lange” anniversary collection pays tribute to the founder of Germany’s precision watchmaking industry and to the trailblazing creations devised in his manufactory: they are what kept the legend alive for four generations of the watchmaking dynasty in the first place. One of them is the Grand Complication with the serial number 42500, initiated by Emil Lange, the second son of the founder. Made in 1902, its Louis XVI case in 18-carat gold accommodates a chiming mechanism with a grand strike and a small strike, a minute repeater, a split-seconds chronograph with a The TOURBOGRAPH “Pour le Mérite” from the anniversary collectionminute counter and flying seconds, as well as a perpetual calendar with a moon-phase display. This one-of-a-kind watch, exceptional in every respect, was sent to Lange in a seriously corroded condition. Many of the 833 parts had to be painstakingly refash- ioned by specialists in the restoration workshop. But after several years of meticulous repair work, all components of the complicated mechanism work again – as perfectly as more than a hundred years ago. 
  
  
  Trilogy of values: three horological milestones 
  
  
  With three impressive timekeeping instruments that give a new face to the enduring watchmaking tradition of the Lange family as regards technical and aesthetic perfec- tion, Lange’s 21st-century watchmakers salute the spiritual legacy of their great mentor. The capabilities of the manufactory are expressed by all three models with a novel case metal developed exclusively for Lange. With a Vickers hardness of over 300, the 18-carat honey-coloured gold exclusively developed for Lange is about twice as hard as other gold alloys. Breathing beneath the hand-engraved balance cock made of the same material is a balance spring developed and manufactured in-house. It symbolises the innovative energy with which every Lange watch is endowed. A guilloched solid-gold dial and a sunburst finish on the three-quarter plate of the 1815 MOONPHASE and the crown wheel cock of the LANGE 1 TOURBILLON allude to the proud ancestral artisanship of the family tradition. A look at all three watches together – and at the concepts they embody – reaffirms Lange’s axiomatic claim “state-of-the-art tradition”. It lives in the Lange pocket watches of old as fervently as in the oeuvres crafted by today’s master watchmakers.
  
  
  An escalation of superlatives : the TOURBOGRAPH “Pour le Mérite”
  
  In 2005, A. Lange & Söhne presented a grand complication that established a new benchmark in precision watchmak- ing: the TOURBOGRAPH “Pour le Mérite”. It was the first one-minute tourbillon in a wristwatch format with a fusée- and-chain transmission as well as an additional rattrapante chronograph. Because of the complexity of the mechanism, it was possible to craft only one watch per month, so the last timepiece of the first partial edition of 51 platinum mod- els was only just delivered a few weeks ago. The coming of a second partial edition of 50 watches in a yet-to-be-defined gold version was announced on the occasion of the original debut. The TOURBOGRAPH “Pour le Mérite” which is now being presented in honour of Ferdinand Adolph Lange also has a case made of the new, harder gold. And it, too, embodies Lange’s ambition to build the world’s finest watches. At the same time, it proves that even a horological superlative can be taken to a new, higher level.