Pick your preferred Lange sheen, from regal rose gold to subtly gleaming proprietary Honey Gold, with each watch delivering mechanical gravitas with quiet distinction
If there is one shade that never feels out of place at Chinese New Year, it is gold. Alongside red, the season’s defining hue signals prosperity and good fortune, gleaming invitingly as if to suggest that the more we flaunt it, the more it returns in kind.
It is fitting, then, that one of fine watchmaking’s most illustrious names marks the Year of the Horse with a selection rendered in warm precious metals. Auspicious? Certainly. Well timed? Without question.
First is the Lange 1 Daymatic, clad in the manufacture’s proprietary Honey Gold alloy. Introduced in December 2025, it exudes a restrained sense of authority, its softly glowing case framing the familiar off-centre display of the Lange 1 family, here configured as a mirror image. As the self-winding counterpart to the manually wound original, the Daymatic pairs technical substance with daily practicality. This edition, matched with a rich brown dial and strap, is limited to 250 pieces.
For those drawn to a more traditional expression, several options arrive in pink gold. The Little Lange 1, housed in a 36.8 mm case, retains the signature asymmetrical layout, while delicate guilloché detailing lends texture and refinement to the indicator.
Elsewhere, the 1815 in 34mm pink gold case demonstrates beauty in restraint. The rich sheen of gold contrasts beautifully with a navy dial, detailed with Arabic numerals and a railway-track minute scale that pay homage to 19th-century pocket watches.
Completing the line-up is the Zeitwerk Date in rose gold. If the 1815 is all about articulating classical codes, the Zeitwerk Date, with its mechanically driven digital display and instantaneous jumping numerals, evokes progressive horology and shows why the collection is one of the most stunning examples of contemporary watchmaking for the past two decades.
