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Product Code 40990388
Manufacturer Product Number 40990388/AS05804
Condition Certified Pre-Owned
Guarantee Analog Shift 1 Year Mechanical Guarantee
Category Pre-Owned Watches
Brand
Watch Markers Non-Luminous
Water Resistant Not Guaranteed
Recipient For Him
Movement Automatic
Dial Color Silver
Material
Bracelet Material Leather
Diameter 42mm
Brand Collections Lange 1

Pre-Owned A. Lange & Sohne Lange 1 Timezone 40990388/AS05804

Name: Lange 1 Timezone
Brand: Pre-Owned A. Lange & Sohne
SKU: 40990388
Price: 55000.00 USD
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Specification

Product Code 40990388
Manufacturer Product Number 40990388/AS05804
Condition Certified Pre-Owned
Guarantee Analog Shift 1 Year Mechanical Guarantee
Category Pre-Owned Watches
Brand
Watch Markers Non-Luminous
Water Resistant Not Guaranteed
Recipient For Him
Movement Automatic
Dial Color Silver
Material
Bracelet Material Leather
Diameter 42mm
Brand Collections Lange 1

Description

Why We Love It

What you’re looking at is a variation of perhaps the most important wristwatch of the last 30 years.

The Lange 1 is without question the manufacturer’s flagship model, and the big date function is its hallmark. Though found in watches like the Zeitwerk or the Langematik Sax-O-Mat, it’s in the Lange 1 that it’s shown to the greatest effect. Alongside other details such as asymmetrical sub-dials depicting the hours and sub-seconds, and the A. Lange & Söhne signature with its famous ampersand, it shows a clarity of vision that is wholly Lange.

The Lange 1 has seen many variations, from a tourbillon to the Timezone, seen here. Introduced in 2005, it maintains the classic lines of the Lange 1 by incorporating the world time and AM/PM indicator into the sub-seconds dial at 5 o’clock, plus a revolving outer GMT band with the names of 24 cities. Powered by the manually wound Calibre L031.1, it also includes hacking seconds, a power reserve indicator, an offset main dial with subsidiary seconds and AM/PM indicator — all the hallmarks of the classic Lange 1. Two pushers — one for the date at 10 o’clock and one for the world time function at 8 o’clock — are subtly integrated into the watch’s left side.

Fitted to a 42mm 18K rose gold case with sapphire crystal and display case back, this particular example features a matching 18K rose gold crown and polished bezel, a satin silver dial with applied rose gold indices, a rose gold-framed date window, a matching rose gold alpha handset, and a signed brown alligator leather strap with rose gold pin buckle. What’s more, it’s not only in excellent condition, showing light wear throughout, but it also comes with its inner and outer boxes, hang tags, leather sleeve, books, and warranty card from Cellini Park Avenue in New York, dated December 2013.
The Lange 1 is special enough on its own, an icon of horology. But this particular execution is one rung higher on the ladder of haute horlogerie.

The A. Lange & Söhne Story

For Germany, Reunification represented a renaissance of sorts for a country that had been rent asunder by the Cold War. And for A. Lange & Söhne, whom fate had situated on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain, it was indeed a rebirth.

Lange was founded in Glashütte in 1845, and its first century was truly a golden age. The brand imbued its products with a care and an attention to detail that brought worldwide renown. Its pocket watches, in particular, gained high marks in competition and saw use on the railroads of Europe.

But the coming of World War II and the subsequent Soviet occupation saw that golden age come to an end. The Soviet authorities expropriated the company in 1948 — the factory was shuttered, and the once-shining name of A. Lange & Söhne nearly faded into obscurity. That is, until 1990, when Walter Lange — great-grandson of the founder, Ferdinand A. Lange — resurrected his family’s old company and brought it to prominence once more.

Armed with Ferdinand Lange’s journal, Walter Lange sketched a watch that would adapt his great-grandfather’s designs to modern tastes, while still keeping an eye firmly on tradition. In the journal, Walter discovered sketches of a clock that Ferdinand designed with his mentor Johann Gutkaes. Commissioned by the Elector of Saxony for the Semperoper House in Dresden, the “Five Minute Clock” was nothing short of revolutionary.

With legibility as their primary concern, Johann Gutkaes and Ferdinand Lange designed a clock that, with its rectangular construction and two counter-rotating drums — one to show the hours, the other the minutes — was essentially the world’s first digital clock. Over one hundred years later, it was that clock that would inspire the modern manufacture’s first watch post-Reunification.

In 1992, Walter Lange filed a patent for a big date window, similar in style to the clock in the opera house. Two years later, it would appear on the Lange 1. Without question the firm’s flagship model, it features a big date function as its hallmark. Though found in watches like the Zeitwerk or the Langematik Sax-O-Mat, it’s in the Lange 1 that the big date is used to the greatest effect. Alongside other details such as asymmetrical sub-dials depicting the hours and sub-seconds, and the A. Lange & Söhne signature with its famous ampersand, it shows a clarity of vision that is wholly Lange.

Subsequent models — no less innovative — have only further cemented the brand’s footing as one of the most refined and fascinating watchmakers in business today. From the ludicrously complicated Zeitwerk to the elegant Saxonia to the recent Odysseus dive watch, Lange & Söhne is committed to pushing the horological envelope and reestablishing Germany as foremost amongst the world’s centers of watchmaking innovation.

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Timepieces purchased online can be returned or exchanged within 10 days from when they are shipped or collected.

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On presentation of the original receipt, your purchases may be returned or exchanged at any of our store locations. Alternatively, you may elect shipping to our facility with all the original paperwork. All refunds must be credited to the same tender used for the original purchase. To return the online purchases through secure shipping service, please contact our client service team who will provide you the shipping label.

All returns or exchanges must be in new, unworn condition, with no scratches or markings, not sized or adjusted and in their original packaging and with warranty cards / certificated and instruction booklets.

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