A. Lange & Söhne's new launches at Watches and Wonders 2025 represent German engineering, craftsmanship, and innovative design, showcasing the manufacture's unwavering commitment to horological excellence.

The new 1815 model pays homage to the brand's founder, Ferdinand Adolph Lange, by embodying his relentless pursuit of perfection. Available in 750 white or pink gold, this timepiece captures the essence of classical watchmaking while introducing modern refinements. With a remarkably slim profile of just 34mm in diameter and 6.4mm in height, the new 1815 represents elegance.   

The watch features a meticulously designed dial that reminds one of Lange's historical pocket watches, complete with a railway-track minute scale, Arabic numerals, and a subsidiary seconds dial positioned at 6 o'clock. Lancet-shaped hands rotate above a blue background, emphasising the watch's classic character. The white-gold version comes with a blue leather strap, while the pink-gold variant features a reddish-brown strap.

   

At the heart of this timepiece lies the manufacture Calibre L152.1, the 75th developed since the brand's re-establishment. This manually wound movement boasts a new oscillation system with a freely oscillating balance spring and a large screw balance crafted in-house, assuring a 72-hour power reserve. It features a hand-engraved balance cock and the traditional three-quarter plate introduced by Ferdinand Adolph Lange in 1864. The aesthetics of the newly developed manufacture calibre L152.1 can be admired through the sapphire-crystal caseback.

The Odysseus Honeygold represents a bold evolution of A. Lange & Söhne's sporty-elegant line. Limited to just 100 pieces, this watch combines a 750 honey-gold case with a rich brown dial, creating a timepiece of exceptional sophistication and versatility. Measuring 40.5mm in diameter, the watch is designed to withstand the demands of sports and leisure activities, with water resistance up to 12 bar.   

A standout feature is the innovative honey-gold bracelet, which is integrated into the case and designed for comfortable wear. It introduces a user-friendly safety deployment buckle allowing length adjustment of up to 7mm without opening the buckle. The bracelet's length can also be adapted by adding or removing individual links.   

 

The brown dial showcases Lange's signature outsize date and day-of-week displays, with luminous hands ensuring legibility in all conditions. The hands and notched baton appliques are also made of honey gold. The white numerals of the outsize date and the letters of the day-of-week display stand out against the brown background. The dial features an embossed groove structure between the hour markers and on the subsidiary seconds dial, providing a three-dimensional effect, contrasting with the subtly gleaming inner surfaces of the main and subsidiary dials. A red number 60 adds a colourful accent on the peripheral minute scale, printed on the bevelled, gold-coloured flange ring.   

The manufacture Calibre L155.1 DATOMATIC powers this timepiece. The name DATOMATIC, visible on the central rotor, stands for the date mechanism combined with automatic winding. The unidirectionally winding rotor ensures efficient winding and a constant delivery of energy. It features a skeletonized and partially black-rhodiumed rotor with a centrifugal mass in 950 platinum, plates and bridges made of untreated German silver, blued screws, and a screwed gold chaton above the escape wheel. 

The mainspring barrel delivers a maximum power reserve of 50 hours. The balance operates at a frequency of 28,800 semi-oscillations per hour (4Hz) and is regulated with four recessed screws. The oscillation system is held by a balance bridge secured at two points and is manually engraved with a wave pattern, alluding to the watch's water resistance.

The Minute Repeater Perpetual stands as a testament to A. Lange & Söhne's technical mastery, combining two of the most sophisticated horological complications in a single, breathtaking timepiece. Limited to 50 pieces in 950 platinum, this watch represents the zenith of mechanical watchmaking.   

When activated by a slide on the left-hand case flank, the minute repeater delivers an impressive acoustic performance. It strikes the hours with a low pitch, quarter hours with a double tone, and minutes that have elapsed since the last quarter hour with a higher-pitched tone. The mechanism comprises 720 different sound sequences, covering every minute in the twelve-hour cycle. The sapphire-crystal caseback reveals the orchestrated movements of the gong hammers and the gongs that produce their melodious sound.   

An ingenious system of precisely choreographed racks, snails, levers, and wheels controls the 194-part striking mechanism. To optimize its operation and functionality, the classic minute repeater is enhanced with intricate devices, including a pause elimination feature. This feature skips the pause between the hour and minute strike when no double tone is required for the quarter hours in the first 14 minutes after the top of the hour. A safety device prevents damage to the chiming mechanism by ensuring that the minute repeater cannot be activated while the crown is pulled. Conversely, the crown cannot be pulled when the chiming mechanism is active. The patented hammer blocker causes the hammers to dwell in their home position for a fraction of a second after the gongs have been struck, preventing the hammers from bouncing and striking the gongs again.   

The perpetual calendar mechanism is equally remarkable, accurately displaying the date, day of the week, and month while accounting for leap years. The watch will require only one day of correction in March 2100, showcasing the incredible precision of its engineering. The moonphase display is also highly precise, requiring correction by one day only after 122.6 years. In a typical Lange manner, all calendar indications can be jointly advanced with a single corrector.   

The technical sophistication of this multiple-complication watch is reflected in the high-quality artisanship of the four-part dial. Made of white gold and filled with black enamel, it is crafted in the A. Lange & Söhne manufacture in a time-consuming procedure. The immaculate, glossy black surface provides an elegant backdrop for the displays and the characteristic Lange outsize date, ensuring excellent legibility. The subsidiary dial at 9 o'clock accommodates the day-of-week and the 24-hour displays, while the one at 3 o'clock displays the month and leap-year indications. The subsidiary dial at 6 o'clock showcases the small seconds and the moon-phase display, with both moons in 750 gold surrounded by more than 100 hand-engraved stars. All four dial sections are embellished with a circular lesene, a fine border in white gold. On the main dial, it runs between the outsize date and the Roman numerals, and on the subsidiary dials, the lesenes separate the inner display sections from the outer ones.