A.LANGE & SOHNE
The art of crafting minute repeaters is considered to be the very pinnacle of all horological achievements. For A.Lange & Söhne, the Zeitwerk Minute Repeater certainly represents an intellectually noble accomplishment, but a symbolically important one as well. The maison’s first-ever Zeitwerk Minute Repeater wristwatch was released five years ago, born out of borrowed technology from A.Lange & Söhne’s Grand Complication (a concept watch with a making cost of over $2 million), and incorporated into the body of a Zeitwerk. Assembled with a digital time display, the watch debuted as a decimal repeater, which allows the watch to sound the hours, the minutes in tens, followed by the remaining single minutes (instead of the usual hours, quarters and minutes). In layman terms, this mechanical timepiece is created for intuitive time telling not just visually from its digital clock but aurally with a chiming mechanism that produces crisp, pleasing sounds. The Zeitwerk Minute Repeater returns this year, executed in white gold while the dial mellows down to a deep blue, highlighting the silver bridges around the time display — a sensibility on A.Lange & Söhne’s part in using non-hands time indicators. Centuries ago, watchmakers devised minute repeaters for wealthy owners to sound the time during the night. While the invention of electricity rendered such audible means obsolete, the German house continues to invest in this horological marvel as an emotional tribute to timekeeping’s past.
A.Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Minute Repeater watch, price on request.
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