Lange A.Lange & Söhne Participates In The 2017 Concorso D’ Eleganza Antique Car Show
Lange A. LANGE & SÖHNE will be exhibiting for the sixth time at the ‘concourse d’ élégance’ antique car show from May 26th to 28th. This year, this traditional event is held under the theme of ‘Traveling the World for 80 Days-Historical Footprint Tour’. As in previous years, winners in the ‘Best Cars’ category receive a unique LANGE 1 TIME ZONE ‘COMO EDITION’.
Elegant cars and fine watchmaking pay tribute to the art of travel: LANGE 1 TIME ZONE on wheels, the rare 1952 Pesoso Cupula
On the last weekend of May, the world’s elegant and charming classic cars will gather in Villa d’ Este on Lake Como. The historic cars and motorcycles and the imaginative future concept cars will win the support of the jury and the public in five categories. Lange has been sponsoring this classic three-day event since 2012. This year, the Lange watch factory from Saxony once again produced a highly respected watch, honouring the most attractive car in the competition. At the awards ceremony on May 28, Lange President Wilhelm Schmid will present a specially customized LANGE 1 TIME ZONE ‘Como Edition’ to the winners in the ‘Best Car’ category. This white 18K gold watch features a hand-engraved Concorso crest emblem on the caseback. In urban circles, ‘Como’ stands for Central European Time.
Grand Hotel Este Manor
The theme of this year’s Concorso d’ Eleganza antique car show is closely related to the race and the Lange tradition. The Grand Hotel Villa d’ Este opened in 1873, and in the town of Glashütte, the Lange family mansion and watch factory were also completed at this time. Interestingly, Jules Verne’s adventure novel ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ was also published in the same year.
Lange family building in Glashütte
This book describes a journey around the world in a race against time, a theme that underscores the prevalence of population movements at the time, and new requirements for timing methods have emerged. The Washington International Meridian Conference decided to divide the world into 24 one-hour time zones. As early as 1883, the year before the conference, Lange had assembled two pairs of hands or set a second on the side of the movement. Each dial is made to display pocket watches at different times. They can be said to be the predecessors of LANGE 1 TIME ZONE. In LANGE 1 TIME ZONE, you can quickly and easily set the second time display to any of the 24 time zones using buttons and city circles.