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Girard-Perregaux
Vintage 1945

The newest member of the Vintage 1945 collection illustrates Girard-Perregaux’s creative force and mastery of design. Its fluid lines establish a new vision of watchmaking elegance, while adhering to the codes of an Art Deco style watch created in 1945.

Art Deco revolutionised the inter-war period, sparking major changes in the world of visuals and decoration. Inspired by this burst of creativity, in 1945 Girard-Perregaux signed a watch illustrating these principles. Today, the new Vintage 1945 offers a modern reading of this style. Paying tribute to its heritage, the Manufacture has carried out a radical rethink of the historic model to invent a contemporary creation.

The distinction of this Vintage 1945 is down to the complex play between the straight lines and curves of its new case. Its rectangular shape contrasts with the curves of the pink gold case. Its geometric subtleties are revealed in three dimensions: its finesse, its curved profile adapting perfectly to the wrist, its convex flanks providing an ideal housing for the crown. The contrast of curves against strict right angles extends to the domed dial, and to the appliques and indexes, meticulously polished to highlight their facets. With its delicate central guilloche work, this dial is rounded off by ‘dauphine’ hands. The small seconds hand runs in the 9 o’clock position, while the date is displayed at 1:30.

As is shown by its 32 x 32 mm dimensions, bigger than those of the original watch of 1945, this model is timeless, yet firmly anchored in its period, classic, yet unique.

A. Lange & Söhne
Lange 1

From the very beginning, the Lange 1 was a bold statement against conformism and Saxony’s answer to stylistic uniformity in watch design. Now, in a stately white-gold case with luminous hands and appliqués, it presents itself in a new livery: radiant,
sleek, and distinctive.

No other watch played a more prominent role in the revival of the A. Lange & Söhne brand than the Lange 1. Though it was launched nearly 15 years ago, it has lost none of its original charisma. In an inimitable way, it melded tradition, progress, and superb quality. The Lange 1 thus became the symbol for the
rebirth of a marque that has always stood for exclusive timekeeping instruments. With a bright argenté dial and a striking white-gold case, the design icon now reveals new, gleaming facets.

Even after nightfall, this watch beams with its luminous, Superluminova-coated rhodiumed gold hands and appliqués on the off-centre time and power reserve dials. So apart from the time of day, the new beacon from Saxony also vividly delivers
the time of night between sunset and sunrise.

This new member of the watch family is also powered by the eminent calibre L901.0 movement. From the horological perspective, it features fascinating details: the typical three-quarter plate made of untreated German silver, screwed gold chatons, the twin mainspring barrel with a power reserve of more
than three days, the patented, highly intricate whiplash precision index adjuster on a hand-engraved balance cock, and the ingenious outsize date display that in the 1990s prompted an entire industry to rethink the fundamental concepts of the dial. To
emphasise its temperament, the Lange 1 in the whitegold
case has a black crocodile strap with a white seam and a Lange prong buckle in solid white gold.

 
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