Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Date

Germany's A Lange & Söhne has been creating its own decidedly high-end version of a digital watch - that is, one that tells time via digits rather than hands - for 10 years now, and its highlight piece at this year's WatchTime New York - taking place for the fifth straight year at Manhattan's Gotham Hall on October 25-26 - is a new model in its groundbreaking Zeitwerk collection with an innovative date display The Zeitwerk Date, first shown to the public last January at the 2019 SIHH watch salon in Geneva, represents the latest leap forward for the iconoclastic timepiece, whose design is inspired by the famous clock at Dresden's Semper Opera House.

This watch is the first in the line to include any type of date display, and it is a distinctive one indeed: a ring-shaped date scale made of glass, numbered 1 - 31, encircles the dial, with the current date always highlighted in red The watch's manually wound Caliber L043.6, a new in-house movement created for this model, accomplishes this with the use of a small, red-colored segment positioned beneath the circumferential date ring with its cutout numerals, which moves one step every day precisely at midnight, making a single revolution once per month The current date is thus always highlighted and easy to read - perhaps the next best option after Lange's more common Outsize Date, which would have been technically impossible to incorporate into this watch.

Lange's watchmakers addressed this potential problem - the one that had heretofore prevented any Zeitwerk watches from adding a date - with a clutch that uncouples the hour ring from the jumping numerals mechanism when the pusher is engaged Delivered on a hand-stitched brown alligator leather strap with a white-gold pronged buckle, the A Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk Date will be among the new and exciting models on display from the 36 luxury watchmakers attending this year's WatchTime New York. Source