The Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar returns in Darth form, with a platinum case ad back dial
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A. Lange & Söhne: Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar

German fine watchmaking stalwart A. Lange & Söhne has been in a platinum state of mind of late, with the new Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar now getting this most opulent of materials too. Well, platinum is simultaneously restrained as well, given that no one can tell it apart from steel, just by looking at it. The perpetual calendar is a great complication that delivers the day, date and month, without fuss or intervention ? the complication automatically adjusts for months of all lengths, including February, and is nonplussed by leap years. Like the Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar in platinum, most also offer a moon phase complication as well. The standard for haute horlogerie perpetual calendars is that they will need no corrections until 2100, the next time a leap year will be skipped. The A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar has fit this criterion since its launch in 2021, and the platinum version is no different.
A. Lange & Söhne: Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar

We will return to the subject of that skipped leap year in a bit, but first a reintroduction for the Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar is in order. It is particularly apt now, although we do wish the Glashütte manufacture would oblige us by making this model in...