Myth and inspiration - The new LANGE 1 in white gold comes on the market these days

The Lange 1 mainly owes its familiarity to its decentralized dial design and to the striking long-length date. Its design model is the five-minute clock of the Dresden Semperoper, which has been a landmark of the world-famous festival house for 175 years.

There are ideas that are so good that they even break through catastrophes and still fascinate as much as 175 days after the first day. One of them is the construction of the five-minute digital display of the Semperoper. High above the stage she shows the time in an artistically framed double window; Left the hours with Roman, on the right in five minutes the minutes with Arabic numerals. The audience is eagerly waiting for the minute display to switch from the 55 to the white field, as the performance begins at the hour.

At the inauguration of the Royal Court Theater in 1841, the technical wonder was a sensation and brought the inventor Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes the title of court clockmaker. Together with his colleague Ferdinand Adolph Lange, Gutkaes had completed the extraordinarily large tower clockwork with two counter-rotating rollers and installed it at a height of 20 meters above the stage. Only 28 years later the house fell, and with it the unique time knife, a fire to the victim. For the new building inaugurated in 1878, Gutkaes' former co-worker Ludwig Teubner created a new stage clock, modeled on the first. And when the Semperoper, once again destroyed in the Second World War, was inaugurated in 1985 for the third time,

The grandeur of Lange 1 inspired by the five-minute watch gave the genius idea a new future in 1994. It is a tribute to the masters of the past in miniature. Compared to conventional solutions, the carefully thought-out design allows up to five times larger and thus perfectly readable date display. Just like the historical model, it works with two separate display surfaces: only there are no rolls, but a single ring with the digits 0 to 9 and a ten-cross with the digits 1 to 3 and a white field. The special technical challenge consisted in the logical switch when changing from the 31 to the 1. While the ten-cross turns 90 degrees and the blank field moves into the viewing window, the singing ring stops for one day.

With the newly designed manufactory caliber L121.1, another chapter was launched in the more than two decades lasting success story of Lange 1. The technical advancement is also reflected in the now very important big-date advertisement. In addition to the red gold, yellow gold and platinum models, it is now also available in white gold with luminous hands and indexes.

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