How A. Lange & Söhne Became a Chronograph Powerhouse | Anthony de Haas & Wei Koh - YouTube - Revolution Watch
Wei Koh interviews A. Lange & Söhne’s Anthony de Haas about the manufacture’s rise as a defining name in modern chronograph watchmaking. They trace the story from the Datograph and Günter Blümlein’s vision through de Haas’s arrival in 2004 and the development of watches including the Double Split, Tourbograph, Datograph Perpetual, Triple Split and Odysseus Chronograph. The discussion examines the engineering choices behind Lange’s chronographs, including split-seconds mechanisms, jumping counters, clutch designs, remontoirs and jumping seconds. It also considers the people, ideas and development philosophy that have shaped the manufacture’s distinctive identity and its pursuit of technically demanding solutions.