The
RICHARD LANGE has its roots in the 19th century. It was an era during which aviation pioneers such as Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin conquered the skies with their machines and when geophysicist Erich von Drygalski embarked on the first German expedition to the South Pole. Precise, easily legible watches were indispendable for navigational purposes and scientific measurements. The origins of the RICHARD LANGE TOURBILLON "Pour le Mérite" date even further back in the history of observation watches: Its three-part regulator dial was inspired by the design of a pocket watch crafted by master watchmaker Johann Heinrich Seyffert of Dresden. With a fusée-and-chain transmission, a tourbillon, and a stop-seconds mechanism, it incorporates no fewer than three complications needed to measure time with extreme precision.
