A. Lange & Söhne takes traditional watchmaking far beyond double assembly, as we learn at the manufacture in Glashütte
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The Lange I building after the renovation (Image taken in 2013)

For our first visit outside Switzerland this issue, and the first one in Legacy overall, we will take a moment to address some behind-the-scenes work. In an issue like this one, where a multitude of manufacturer visits are arrayed before you, dear reader, our goal is to make it all as engaging as possible. Normally, we do not worry about how one story follows the next, as long as there is a standard. For example, the simplest thing is to go with alphabetical order. If you have gotten this far, then you already know we have not done this. What we have done is separated the Swiss brands from the others, although in practice there is nothing to set them apart in terms of quality. Of course, this is not to say that Grand Seiko and A. Lange & Söhne are at all the same, any more than all manufactures are the same. For this reason, this seems as good a place to pause and take stock as any.
To begin with, it will not have escaped your attention that all but one of these stories is written by me. In itself, that elevates the risk that each manufacture story would suffer from a certain sense of ?sameness,? and this is not what we want for Time Stamps. As noted previously, we a...