A. Lange & Söhne Release New 1815 Tourbillon And Richard Lange Jumping Seconds; Alpina's Vintage Seastrong Diver; Delma's Crazy Lumed Dials; Wren And Ben's Watches Team Up; Urwerk's Blue Scorpion

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In this issue

• A. Lange & Söhne Introduces Updates To The Classy 1815 Tourbillon And Richard Lange Jumping Seconds

• Alpina Brings A Vintage Feel To The Very Modern Seastrong Diver Extreme Automatic

• Delma Expands Their Hardcore Oceanmaster With Lumed Dials In Four Colors

• Wren Teams Up With Ben From Ben’s Watches For A Very Cool Version Of The

• Urwerk Gives Their Sharp UR-150 A Blue And Neon Yellow Colorway

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A. Lange & Söhne Introduces Updates To The Classy 1815 Tourbillon And Richard Lange Jumping Seconds

It’s always a good day when we get new watches from A. Lange & Söhne. They don’t release a lot of watches per year, especially not new models, but Lange is a company of incremental updates. And that’s exactly what we got late last week. These are the new 1815 Tourbillon, now in platinium with a grand-feu enamel dial, and the new Richard Lange Jumping Seconds with a white gold case and pink gold dial. And they’re pure class.

Starting with the 1815 Tourbillon, it comes in a platinum case that measures 39.5mm wide and a slender 11.3mm. The case has a combination of brushed and polished finishes, with sapphire crystals front and back, held down with sloping fixed bezels. It’s a simple case, with a small crown on the right side and not much else. But while the platinum case is beautiful, it’s all about the incredible inky black Grand Feu that Lange makes in-house. At 6 o’clock is a huge opening for the tourbillon, beveled by hand, and the dial gets a railway-track minutes scale on the periphery, large Arabic numerals, blued hands and a recessed centre. The one minute tourbillon is held with a black-polished bridge.

The tourbillon is part of the in-house manual-winding calibre L102.1 which beats at 21,600vph and has a 72 hour power reserve. Of course, it’s beautiful, with the classic German silver three quarter plate, screwed gold chatons and a diamond endstone on the tourbillon’s axis. The watch comes on a glossy black alligator leather strap with a platinum deployant buckle.

The new A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Tourbillon is limited to 50 pieces, with a price that is on request. However, while the last enamel dial 1815 Tourbillon in platinum was priced under €200,000, a collector in Geneva told me this is priced around €250,000. See it on the brand website.

Moving on to something a bit more affordable and perhaps a bit more fun, the Richard Lange Jumping Seconds. It’s a fairly new collection, just nine years old, and not that very known. But I have a soft spot for it, thanks to its very cool technical aspects, including a constant-force escapement, my favorite — the deadbeat second — and their patented zero-reset mechanism. Now the watch comes in what might be its best iteration, with a white gold case and salmon dial made out of pink gold. The case measures 39.9mm wide, 10.6mm thick, with a 46mm lug-to-lug and is made out of 18k white gold, with a combination of brushed and polished finishes.

Then, the dial. An incredible thing made out of pink gold, paired with black markings with a regulator-style setup and a couple of red accents. The setup styled after 18th-century scientific instruments created by Johann Heinrich Seyffert. The largest dial at the top of the dial is used for the deadbeat seconds, while the hours and minutes are displayed on the two smaller dials at the bottom. In the space created by the intersection of the three dials you’ll see a small triangle that turns red ten hours before you run out of energy.

All of this is powered by the manually wound calibre L094.1. It beats at 21,600vph and has a 42 hour power reserve. And it’s quite the thing to observe. It too has the untreated German silver three-quarter plate, through which you can see the constant-force escapement which is used as a jump mechanism for the seconds hand. The movement also has that patented zero-reset mechanism that resets the seconds hand to zero the moment you pull out the crown. Finishing includes blued screws, screwed gold chatons, polished bevels, and a hand-engraved balance cock. The watch comes on a hand-stitched dark-brown alligator strap with a white-gold pin buckle.

The new A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Jumping Seconds in salmon is limited to 100 pieces and the price is also on request. But the same collector told me it will sell for €110,000. See more on the A. Lange & Söhne website.

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Alpina Brings A Vintage Feel To The Very Modern Seastrong Diver Extreme Automatic

While Alpina has some pretty fantastic vintage-inspired watches, ranging all the way back to the 1930s, they are best known for their modern sports watches. And boy, do they make really nice sports watches. I’m more familiar with their Alpiner collection, but more recently, the Seastron diving series has been making some cool splashes. It’s a relatively new collection, perhaps a year old, and they just introduced the Seastrong Diver Extreme Automatic Vintage Styled Editions with a strong vintage vibe that doesn’t lose its modernity.

Despite its aggressive name, the watch actually comes in a rather sensible case, one made even easier to wear due to the cushion shape and stubby lugs. The stainless steel case measures 39mm wide and 12.65mm thick and the case has a brushed finish with polished bevels. On top is a nothced unidirectional bezel with a matte black ceramic insert, surrounding a flat sapphire crystal. On the right side is rubberized crown and on the left is a bumper that protects the case. Water resistance is 300 meters.

The dial is where the vintage inspiration comes from. There are two dial options to choose from. The first one has a black sandblasted dial paired with applied indices and hands filled with old radium lume. The second one has a grained khaki-green color that’s also paired with fauxtina lume which will be controversial for some. I’m not a huge fan of fauxtina, but I really like it here, especially on the khaki-green version. Both watches have a date aperture at 6 o’clock with white date discs inside.

Inside is the AL-525 automatic movement, which is a slightly modified Sellita SW200. The modification comes in the form of a black asymmetrical rotor, while the movement keeps its 4Hz beat rate and 38 hour power reserve. The watches come on rubber straps with folding clasps.

The new Seastrong Diver Extreme Automatic Vintage Styled Editions are part of the regular edition and will be available very soon. See more on the Alpina website.

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Delma Expands Their Hardcore Oceanmaster With Lumed Dials In Four Colors

Sailing or regatta watches are perhaps my favorite watch genre out there. They have to solve for one very specific problem, and they manage to do so in countless many variations. Delma, a slightly under the radar Swiss brand that is celebrating 100 years, has its own take on the sailing watch in which they focus on a different approach to sailing — one that’s based on speed. They launched the Oceanmaster with a lume dial about this time last year, if I remember correctly, and they did it with offshore sailor Oliver Heer, who then competed in a single-person, non-stop round the world Vendée Globe race. I loved that model as it was quite a chunker, but they haven’t done much to it. Until now, that is. With the new Delma Oceanmaster Lume collection that comes with a very cool twist. Most lumed dials are white. This collection comes in four very cool colors.

Since the Oceanmaster was made for solo globe circumventing races, this is a watch that’s made to survive all kinds of stuff. Made out of stainless steel, it measures 44mm wide, 13.8mm thick and with a 51mm lug-to-lug. Sure, overkill, but the watch can go down to 500 meters. The cushion-shaped case is brushed with polished bevels and a polished edge on the unidirectional bezel with deep grooves. The bezel has a 360 degree compass bezel which sure is useful while sailing, but if you have to use your watch for navigation you’re gonna have much bigger concerns than the size of your watch. The crown is protected with guards and there’s a helium escape valve on the case side at 9 o’clock.

The dials keep the same setup as the Oliver Heer version, but with new colors. You get a choice of yellow, orange, green and light blue, all of them shining brightly in the dark. The applied hour indices, the hour and minutes hands and the tip of the contrasting red seconds hand glow green. The red and blue rectangular and triangular marks along the dial’s perimeter, positioned between some indices, are points of sail indicators used with the nautical bezel to guide a boat.

Inside, you get a simple and robust movement, the Sellita SW200-1 which beats at 4Hz and has a 41 hour power reserve. The watch comes on a stainless-steel three-link bracelet with a deployant clasp.

The new Delma Oceanmaster Lume collection is part of the permanent collection, with a price set at €1,500. See more on the Delma website.

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Wren Teams Up With Ben From Ben’s Watches For A Very Cool Version Of The

Bar talks at Geneva Watch Days are the best talks. While the talk I had with Ben, from Ben’s Watches, didn’t take place in a bar at night, but it did take place at a bar in the Beau Rivage hotel in Geneva. You meet some great people sitting at a bar, and Ben is one of them. A genuine watch enthusiast, with some pretty sensible thoughts. So it makes sense that a watch he works on will also be sensible. It also happens to be good looking. Ben teamed up with Wren watches, a small brand from New York with a pretty passionate following for their interestingly designed dive watches. This is the new Wren x Ben’s Watches Diver One Magma.

While Wren does make more compact watches, I’m digging the fact that the one chosen for the collaboration comes in their larger case. The stainless steel case measures 41mm wide, 13.3mm thick and has a 47mm lug-to-lug. On top is a sapphire box-style crystal which gives it a retro look that matches the thin lugs that are reminiscent of skin divers of old. The sapphire is surrounded by a simple coin-edge unidirectional bezel with a black insert and a 60 minute scale. Water resistance is 200 meters, which is also in line with a skin diver-type watch. Very cool.

Then, there’s the dial, which is quite something. In the best possible way. It has a fumé paintjob, from an orange center to black edges. Since the model is named Magma, it’s quite clear where the inspiration came from. It has Wren’s signature sandwich construction, which sees the lume moved to a lower level than the rest of the dial, but it also has black lume, something that I always found incredibly cool.

Inside, you’ll find the tried and true Sellita SW200. This automatic beats at 4Hz and has a 38 hour power reserve. It won’t win any beauty or accuracy prizes, but it will keep ticking and will be convenient and affordable to service pretty much anywhere in the world. The watch comes on flat-link stainless steel bracelet with micro-adjustment in the clasp, with an additional black rubber strap.

The new Wren x Ben’s Watches Diver One Magma is a limited edition, with only 100 made, and checking their website you’ll see that there’s only a handful left. At the time of writing, there are 16 left. So go get one quick if you want it. Price is set at $1,075. See more on the Wristenthusiast website.

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Urwerk Gives Their Sharp UR-150 A Blue And Neon Yellow Colorway

For years now, Urwerk has been perfecting the wandering satellite-hour complication and I love them for it. The weird movement allowed them to experiment in case shapes, playing with colors and sci-fi influences. Their latest release is an update of the already cool UR-150 Scorpion, which now gets a sharp blue color with some bright, bright yellow details.

The case of the UR-150 Blue Scorpion is slightly larger than the UR-100 it is based on, but it’s also much more curved, less aggressive and more ergonomic on wrist, despite the huge domed sapphire crystal. It measures 42.49mm wide, 52.31mm long, and 14.79mm thick. While the regular Scorpion comes in a smooth case, this Blue version gets a steel case that has a sandblasted finish with a series of stepped concentric grooves cut into it. Very cool. You still get the four screws in the corners, but here they are finished blue. On top is the huge sapphire, needed to house the time display unit.

On the dial side, the thing you’ll first noticed is the huge openworked hand with its tip painted a neon yellow. The dial features a minute track that doesn’t go all the way around, instead it travels just 240 degrees. All the time is show with that one hand. In the tip of the hand you’ll find the current time from the three domed discs that follow the hand around the dial. The tip of the hand points to the minutes on the mnute track. When it reaches the green-painted 60, a retrograde mechanism, powered by a specially developed and in-house machined spring, is activated. In 1/100th of a second, the hand jumps back 240 degrees to 0, while the satellites rotate 270 degrees to reveal the next hour. This is so cool. While on the previous version it was all grey, here the base is a metallic blue.

It’s powered by the UR-50.01 movement, an automatic that features a double turbine mechanism to regulate the speed of the skeletonized rotor and absorb shocks. Based on a Vaucher movement, it beats at 4Hz and has a 43 hour power reserve. The watch comes on a blue rubber strap that looks like the scales of a scorpion..

The new Urwerk UR-150 Blue Scorpion is limited to 50 pieces and price is set at CHF 90,000. See more on the Urwerk website.

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