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A. Lange & Sohne 1815 Chronograph Among 4 New Models Launching At Watches & Wonders 2015
It’s pretty big news whenever A. Lange & Sohne release a new timepiece. Bigger still is the announcement that four new wristwatches will make their debut at the upcoming haute horlogerie exhibition in Hong Kong. This will be the third such fair in the centre of the Asian market, and Lange deemed it an appropriate platform by which to launch their new collection, which includes the A. Lange & Sohne 1815 Chronograph, because of the continent’s strong links to manufacture and the growing enthusiasm for high-end watches in the region.Building on the success of its first two years, the haute horlogerie exhibition in Hong Kong, entitled Watches & Wonders, will run from September 30th to October 3rd, 2015. A. Lange & Sohne is the only brand of the twelve exhibitors that hails from Germany. For a country with such an admirable history in watchmaking, the brand carries a great deal of responsibility to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, which will host t
Blancpain Villeret Grande Date Jour Retrograde Watch Hands-On
The Villeret is one of Blancpain‘s most important and well-known collections, representing a classical side of the brand’s personality. Classical it may be, but overly conservative or boring it is not, in my opinion. Introduced at Baselworld 2018, the Blancpain Villeret Grande Date Jour Retrograde features a pair of useful complications presented in a slightly idiosyncratic way, just to mix things up. I believe this particular combination of functions and the movement variation that powers it are new to the brand, and the retrograde day of the week is a new feature for the Villeret collection.Hands-on images by Ariel AdamsThe Blancpain Villeret is characterized by a stepped (or “double pomme,” as Blancpain calls it) bezel, thin leafy hands, and squat Roman numerals that leave a lot of open dial space. For simple two- or three-hand models like, for example, this Blancpain Villeret with enamel dial and eight days of power reserve, this leaves us with a very formal