One of A. Lange & Sohne's more quiet new releases for 2012 was this redesigned version of the Grand Lange 1 watch. Last year they released the great looking Lange 1 Daymatic with an automatic movement, and this year the Lange 1's slightly bigger brother gets an update. This model is really something that mostly dedicated A. Lange & Sohne fans are going to understand, as it isn't clearly an update, but more a slight revision. The Grand Lange 1 actually gets a bit smaller, but also thinner as well. Plus, the dial layout is now much more clean.
The original Lange 1 watch helped make the modern A. Lange & Sohne brand popular back in the 1990s. Its asymmetric design was highly unusual, and it was risky at the time. Now the Lange 1 is the brand's flagship model. It comes in a 38.5mm wide case - which is nothing huge by today's standards. When the Grand Lange 1 originally came out a few years ago it was 41.9mm wide and 11mm thick. It upped the size of the case and helped emphasize the larger stance of the watch by using a subsidiary seconds dial that overlapped the off-centered hour and minute dial. Even the "outsize" (big) date window overlapped the hour and minute dial. It was a cool watch, but I feel that its less than totally fluid dial appearance itched at Lange's designers.
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