Langes And Lake Como: The Watches And Cars Of The 2019 Concorso d'Eleganza

A major collector from Shanghai urged me to contribute to the photo, and since I was wearing a Lange 1 in white gold for the Concorso d'Eleganza weekend, I was happy to oblige him Outside of a watch fair or when I visited the manufacture which was inaugurated by no less than Angela Merkel, I've never seen so many different Langes in the metal, as it were, from the brand that is the proud forerunner of German haute horlogerie I spoke with Anthony de Haas, product director of A.

Lange & Söhne, who had this to add, "There are big similarities in the fascination of mechanical cars and the fascination of mechanical watches It is just something about those moving parts - and these beautiful classic cars were built when they took the time to execute beautiful handcraftsmanship You could compare it with the chamfering and mirror finishing of our watch movements" Speaking to some collectors after they dried off, it turns out watches and cars have something more in common: how should you keep an old beauty? Should you renovate with caution or restore fully? There was a time when the trend was restoring - when the cars looked better than new.

Thankfully the growing trend in watches - careful renovation, if at all - is also the current trend in cars Anthony de Haas has now been with A Lange & Söhne for 15 years - twice as long as the brand has partnered with the Concorso.

"The independents make the crazy watches, and the big brands make the commercial watches My meaning is that Lange is right in-between Look for instance at our Zeitwerk collection - it could be from an independent.

Lange belongs to the big brands - we are a big name - but together with the team I have the freedom to be creative." . Source