Glashütte Glamour: WatchTime LA Welcomes New Timepieces from A. Lange & Söhne

A new, white-gold, black-dialed version of the Richard Lange Jumping Seconds and the first date-equipped model in the Zeitwerk collection will be among the new watches that Germany's most prestigious luxury watchmaker, A Lange & Söhne, will bring to the upcoming WatchTime Los Angeles event on May 3-4 The Richard Lange Jumping Seconds combines two complementary mechanisms: a one-second constant force escapement and an integrated jumping seconds function that displays the precise time in crisp, one-second intervals.

Designed for optimal legibility as well as topnotch timekeeping precision, the watch features a large central seconds hand that advances in exactly 60 steps per minute A power reserve indicator in a triangular window, inside the intersection of the hours and minutes subdial and just beneath the seconds subdial, appears at 6 o'clock The movement, Lange's in-house, manually wound Caliber L0941, has an ingenious architecture that distributes constant-force generation and the seconds jump to two wheel trains, but also allows them to interact.

The clutch disk in the middle is secured to the fourth-wheel arbor; in its closed position, the spring firmly presses the top and bottom clutch disks together, immobilizing the large seconds hand between the abrupt acceleration and deceleration cycles that occur every second in the normal operating mode Housed inside a 44.2 mm white-gold case - under a gray dial made of solid silver, displaying small seconds in a subdial at 6 o'clock and the traditional Saxon "Auf/Ab" power reserve display at 12 o'clock in addition to the hours and minutes apertures - the newly designed Caliber L042.8 oscillates at 18,00 vph and amasses a power reserve of 72 hours when fully wound. . Source