The Most Incredible Watch Ever Built | Watchfinder & Co.
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, you are about to witness the peak of this channel. On loan direct from the brand itself, a one-off opportunity, I present to you the one and only, the incredible, the unmatched A. Lange & Söhne Triple Split. Let’s begin.
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Where to go from here? The Quadruple Split of course. With the added functionality of splitting the buyer's wallet upon purchase.
I’m pretty sure that this one already has that particular function covered.
Well this one is already a quadruple split, you'll probably have to split your wife with AD to buy one... ok choww
I actually LOL'd
@@giovannidivici we are everywhere.
Wallet? You mean Bank Account?
Thank you for the generous 5 extra minutes of pure eye candy
It's literally a computer with gears. Amazing engineering. And beautiful as well.
Miniscule gears. It's breathtaking.
At this point A. Lange is just flexing on the holy trinity the uncrowned kings
In your dream. Patek has long integrated silicon hairspring and escarpment parts, Lange is still using Nivarox alloy form back in 1930...
@@yunlongwu8071 and their design and price is still garabe
yun wu I believe you mean silicon hairspring. Silicone wouldn’t be particularly effective.
@@Someothername2134 a Silicone hairspring? can you even read lol.. i guess these days people are having too many plastic surgeries
@@MonicaHolly143 what watches are you collecting then? I'm sure my Patek will hold its value better than most watches in your collection, but if you are a big time Rolex collector then yeah you are the best
For those of you fellow enthusiasts (re)watching this video later here are a few time stamps showcasing some feats of this watch. Enjoy!
0:20, 6:15, 8:28, hour split in close up
2:50, split hands catching up
4:06, 9:09, minute split in close up
5:20, both column wheels in view
6:26, (sort of) a full view of the movement
It took me quite some time to appreciate A Lange & Söhne. Now i am thinking about selling my entire collection for a double split.
Order a brochure. The macro pics will make you want to sell your house to buy a few of em.
@@geoffwatches :D Nice comment!
@@geoffwatches I'd sell my soul if I could find a buyer
@@Ridewithjst $10?
@@sidesauce He's at your local church, in plain sight!
“First of all...rude” hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣 I love it!
9:18 - "Where is there to go from here?" - Elementary my dear Watson...Make a Tripple Split Zeitwerk.
I would sell my soul for it!
I was only just thinking that
@@ItsNeverTooHot4Leather I'm sure you're a good person - but for this watch your soul isn't enough.
Even a "Simple" Zeitwerk Chronograph would be incredible
@@ItsNeverTooHot4Leather you'd be in a long line of people trying to make that trade
Vacheron Constantin:"we have built the most complex watch in the world"
A. Lange & Sohne:"May I come in"
Where to go now ? Easy : split date, for those patient enough to time simultaneous events lasting more than 24 hours. Like a one mile snail race, or a US presidential election.
LOL the last one had me in tears.
ROFL!
Ha!
add a perpetual calendar and split the month and year as well
He really is a Hand of his word
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏼
Brilliant
'The peak of this channel'...
Gave me goosebumps.
Huge fan of A. Lange & Söhne.
Next level of Lange Chronograph - the Atom Split :P
It would be an explosive hit
“The Thrice Diced Chronograph”.........that’s why I love this guy!
User 2389 thank for your opinion
User 2389 Believe me - the pleasure is all yours.
@User 2389 cRiNgY
The irony lol
User 2389 speak for those like you - not me.
User 2389 you are not talking to your mummy now keyboard warrior. Grow up and stop practicing your wrist action.
Imagine dropping it while filming... Nice video, as always. A. Lange does not play in a different league, it's a different sport.
It’s unbelievable how humans can make something so perfect in the truest sense of the word. Literally flawless in every way. Insanely complex for the sake of being complex. Incredible.
My thoughts exactly, how is that level of perfection made by imperfect humans
11:55 It's like a mini Steampunk city inside a watch! What an incredible godly piece of engineering.
*steampunk
@@jlg395 Corrected thnx!
It’s referred to as the Micro City. This watch is incredible.
*ungodly
"How complicated is it?"
"It is enough to give even Christopher Nolan a headache" - watchfinder 2020
The movement is hypnotic to look at. The layering, and intricacies are extraordinary.
I don't even own a watch yet this is the fastest i have ever seen a notification and clicked to watch. Watchfinder...you are doing the world a great service. This channel is becoming sort of a "Natural History Museum" for watches. Documenting all these watches for posterity is a great service indeed
The peak of watch making and the peak of content making, I can't start to express the emotions right now, literally goosebumps, good job guys. Really lucky to be a fan.
Now that was a treat (even better than the fudge bars, I brought home from work).... your footage, narration, writing...all first class, thank you.
Me: how much do i owe you for service?
AD: your first born child and your soul
seems to be a good deal ;)
AD: Yes
DIY and save a Kidney, leg and first born :)
AD: Njah thats a Problem... nobody is able to service it on this Planet, even Lange doesn't know how they put it together
It's not only an engineering marvel but also a piece of art. The dial is cleaner and more beautiful than most of simple chronographs.
The differnce between a watch seller (Rolex) and a watch maker.
Shots fired
Oh snap. I agree entirely though.
pretentious
I really can't understand why you can't appreciate both. I didn't know people loving watches were as immature as people hating on Samsung and Apple without seeing what both did for the industry.
I mean I love ALS as much as Rolex but for different reasons. I am mind blown by the workmanship in the ALS, just as I love seeing John Mayer showing an ultra rare 1953 ref6204 Sub on Talking Watches.
Both Brand have a huge importance in watchmaking in their own leagues. You won't find, with ALS, as much history as with Rolex. You won't find ALS finishing in Rolex movement.
Just love both brand for what they are and stand for. However, you are allowed to hate Hublot, I'll give that.
@@augusot4452 that last line though 😂
The additional footage was delicious... thank you. Without question, these are them most exquisite videos ever produced. ...Barry
Richard Mille when you make something like this, then you can justify your arbitrary prices!
Where to go?
How about returning the split lap time to zero, with a third hand starting simultaneously?
That would replicate the function of the "three stop watches" method that was always used on race tracks.
One stopwatch is started at the start, and stopped at the end of the race. Two more watches are linked by a bar. Watch 2 is started simultaneously with watch 1. At the end of the first lap the bar is depressed, and watch 2 stops and watch 3 starts. The lap time is recorded from watch 2, and it is then reset normally. And so on....
The race time was also recorded per lap on the fly, as a back up.
Or of course, you could download a $10 app... but that's not exactly the point is it?
Indeed, whether this would be possible mechanically I don’t know, but if it were at least it would be useful. This triple split is of no use to anyone.
I see you are a TSD rally enthusiast as well.
Nobody needs a mechanical watch to take the time. Any digital garbage is more precise. But a painting is also more worth than a photograph, and every cheap phone makes more detailed pictures than any of the great painters. It is art! Art needs no practical use. Art is, because we can.
Fantastic! And kudos to A. Lange & Söhne for making it possible.
Your comments about the additional complication involved in adding even a single split reminded me of Ginger Rogers' comment on dancing with Fred Astaire: "I did everything he did, but backwards and in high heels."
I know that this is probably an overused statement but there is no better fit than here: THIS is German engineering at its absolute BEST!
Awesome that you finally got your hands on this amazing piece of art - thanks to the company itself! BIG THANKS & congrats to you as well as A. Lange & Söhne!
Both of you, keep up the great work - all the best from Germany!
A.L&S is undoubtedly my favorite watchmaker. This triple split is out of this world. Thank you Watchfinder for presenting it to us.
I really cannot express how much I appreciate your filming. You have such an amazing eye to make these beautiful watches glow.
Please know that does not go unnoticed.
Thank you.
The better the watch, the better the Watchfinder-video! Great!!! Thanks for the additional footage. Please do a video on the 1815 Rattrapante Honeygold "Homage to F.A. Lange" or on all three of the 175-year-jubilee edition.
It has become clear that Lange & Söhne is the best watchmaking company in the entire world.
A. Lange & Söhne is owned by the same company as Watchfinder & Co.
@@MultiCodecode we know
What determines the music/background choice for these videos? I like them both but I sometimes prefer the dark wood background too.
You actually made it happen, incredible. Just made my day!
God I love the ALS design language. I'm perpetually in distress knowing I'll never be able to afford one unless I'm being completely irresponsible with my finances.
I have always considered Lange to be the absolute best engineered watch in the world and this incredible model; reinforces my position!! Wonderful review!
This is the sport watch the Breguet and Daniels would have worn when meeting up for a chat and a drink down the pub - a watch they themselves would show off to the other guys at the bar , a watch that then should have by rights inspired the third guy at the bar - a certain young lad called FP Journe .
True story, but you missed Philippe Dufour behind the counter
@@kalamoj And John Harrison washing the windows.
And Hans wildorf looking through the window feeling left out
Possibly the most awaited WF clip of all time. "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls" Finally... THIS is magical, mechanical engineering and execution.
Such a good video. All of the shots were mesmerizing. The reel at the end was an awesome addition!🔥😍
Lange is “the” member of The Holy Singularity.
Under such intense magnification the thing is absolutely flawless. It has to been seen to be believed - so thanks for the additional 5mins straight of this visual feast of engineering and craftsmanship.
What’s mind blowing is every Lange is finished flawlessly, regardless of price. There’s really no other brand which comes close to Lange, except for some of the very high end independents (Kari Voutilainen comes to mind)
Let me summarize this timepiece for everyone - this is the best timepiece created since the quarts crisis. One of the best timepiece ever made by any watchmaker. Where do we go from here, 🤔...... over to Mr. F.P!
Great video. Thank you. Enjoyed the extra footage at the end. The finish on the dial and the polished architecture of the movement are mesmerizing.
Thank you for bringing a smile to my face and tears to my eyes! :’)
The extra footage was much appreciated too!
Don't know if I've ever heard this level of hype and excitement in your voice!
Knew from the start this had to be a really, really big deal.
000 / 100 . The most exclusive review of the most complicated watch
What a watch. Always appreciated ALS for their work. Fantastic presentation
Amazing curtain call, and the watch deserves every split second of it.
Aha...!! I see what you did there..
Ok. Gotta Split...
( Sorry, I'll get my coat and let myself out...) *slinks away shamefully*
Without a doubt, ALS is at the top of every other watch manufacturer. Even at this magnification level its almost impossible to find any flaws.
Best video ever. All the references is perfect!
The bonus footage at the end was great. They should just create stock footage of amazing watchrs on a loop for people to play in the background.
No whatsoever doubt about the super ingenuity of the German watchmaker, A. Lange & Sohne!!
What impresses me here is the amount of finishing seen under the microscope. It passed all scrutiny.
I jumped from happiness when i saw this is on my feed! Wow what a smooth and elegant design! I love the fact chrono hands are all blue
I wonder how much parts it has
A landmark video. Well done guys you’ve done it again brilliant to watch! Thank you.
Ahh...that was so satisfying I had to watch it twice. I'm going to save it so I can enjoy it again later. What a watch and what a fabulous watch maker.
This will be the most watched video of Watchfinder
No, because it will only attract watch nerds, not the masses
@@Aryan-fo1ls he did say 'of Watchfinder', which I presume is already a pretty niche/technicality appreciating audience.
@@sushimshah2896 Woah. Three Indians(probably) in one thread! That doesn't happen a lot on this channel
@@Aryan-fo1ls 😂, yep
@@sushimshah2896 No, because the most watched videos on this channel are predominantly Rolex related, so not niche.
I am not sure, what is more remarkable: the watch itself or the video. One of the best videos ever, and believe me I've seen thounsands , not just in horology. Lange, on the other hand is so under-rated brand among the collectors. This watch, together with many others, proved that A. Lange und Sohne is opposite. Keep doing good work.
Pretty soon they'll be able to run Crysis. I just watched the walk through of A. Lange & Söhne on TheWatchestv again last night and they never fail to impress!
"Once you have broken the threshold into the unknown.it becomes the known"
(Watchfinder & Co)
No specs in this video, just pure beauty and perfection. Thanks for sharing this piece of art - and I mean both the watch AND the video.
Next thing they will split the power reserve indicator, so that you know the difference before and after winding the watch. A gravitational wave detector will be thrown in as a bonus.
Rattrapante, double & then triple split- the chronograph saga ofALS. Truly the heights of haute horlogerie.
I’d like to find one of these on the beach while metal detecting.
All I ever find are beer can pull tabs.
Thats the dream my friend. The ultimate dream.
I would have a real hard time doing the right thing in that case! But, alas, no watch is worth my integrity.
To be clear by "the right thing" dont mean turn it over to the police so they can take it home. I mean actually find the fortunate/unfortunate owner who lost it. Plus, hopefully if they can afford to lose a watch like this they could afford a nice thank you gift watch!
This is going to be hard to top! Incredible video as usual!
The watch of the miracles: it even provided us with a long, clean sample of the background song from 9:41 to 14:24!!! 😍😍😍
"fundamentally this is a watch like any other" This is a Lange & Sohne. There, I fixed it for you.
Now this was worth watching in 4K!
I don't even know if it's possible now, but in the same vein as "something special"... A Heritage Watch Manufactory Firmamentum review would be incredible.
Money wise too
A Lange & Sohne create & engineer the most incredible watches. I, unfortunately, am one of the many standing outside the shop with my nose pressed up against the glass dreaming of owning one. It's never going to happen unless great fortune is bestowed upon me undeservedly. I don't like window shopping but the pain of it is lessened hugely by the absolutely fantastic narration & language used in your clips accompanying the showing of said watch . Whoever you are, I hope they are paying you handsomely as you deserve it. Consistently interesting watch clips relaying additional information & history, all delivered in an interesting & entertaining way. Well done Sir!
Mesmerising. I guess I will come back to this video several times in the near and distant future. Congratulations to those savvy enough that, having the purchasing power, will choose this masterpiece. And thanks for the bonus footage at the end!
I'll admit a bit of envy. Being able to handle and examine one of these up close would be about the extent of my desire in regards to one. It's engineering art for art's sake. Of the few of these they actually sell, I'd imagine none get worn more than once or twice at most if that. It's a stealth complication that likewise probably gets used once or twice. Where do they go from here? Well there was a company that advertised a mechanical watch that would show sunrise and sunset times for any point on the planet. I suspect the prototype was the only one made and it probably didn't work well. I expect ALS could make one that actually worked.
Wonder when Aventi will get its hands on a Chinese approximation of the movement.
Oh boy the end is a treat
If you haven't catched the video about the double split
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first of all rude...you should watch all our videos!😂👌🏼
I love this guy and his voice!✌🏼😍
the first time I ever used youtube`s full screen function - great video
Patek has left the room
Hello Watchfinder Team - I wanted to thank you for including just the watch plus the music at the end of this video. As much as I love the stories you tell, there is something about just being able to watch everything move alongside the music that is very calming.
If you ever get the opportunity to do this in the future with other special watches, I'd really appreciate it. Or, perhaps you could create a version of your videos with just the music and the footage, linked as an unlisted video in the description.
Incredible, what a masterpiece! And as ever, magnificently recorded to be enjoyed by our eyes and ears. Thank you
I can never understand all the hype with Rolex when there are beauties like this.
Price and ego.
There are plenty of superior luxury goods on the market in any market overshadowed by titans of their industries. They shine because the product quality is decent enough not to be questioned as they pour a lot of resources into marketing and other areas not directly correlated with development. They do so because the return in financial growth is far greater than any actual improvement to a product can bring.
I would go even further and say that this applies to any industry and the country of origin being synonymous with certain perceptions in mind, something I would argue even this niche market of luxury spenders would have trouble with.
Rolex is for normies who doesn't give a damn about watchmaking as a science and art.
@@NuryPPanaligan that’s a bit of a strecht to say
@@tmpecho Maybe. I mean that majority of those who buy Rolex appreciate watchmaking at a surface level. Most of the people buy it as a social signifier.
Yes, there's a watch I'd like to see featured: the Omega Seamaster Professional Diver 300m Master chronograph, steel on steel with the simple, monochromatic black dial. First, because It's mine and I'd love to watch it through your expert eye and unbelievable footage. Second, because it's perhaps the exact opposite to the Triple Split but just as perfect in it's own rights. That Lange, by the way, is outstanding. Probably the best chronograph ever so far and Philippe Dufour might agree. It's only major flaw: I can't afford it.
The SMP 300 Chrono 2019, on the other hand, I can and I do. And boy that a watch. If you bare the size, that thing simply is - dollar for dollar, feature for feature - the world's best luxury industrial mechanical sports watch. Major brand with unique history and pedigree, modern classic design, built like a tank, 300m water resistance, flawless finish, perfectly symmetrical bicompax display, ceramics all over, visible METAS certified caliber 9900, iconic and refined Bond nine links bracelet with micro adjustments by a hidden pusher in the clasp, all yours for CHF 7'400.- (rubber band, bottle of champagne and some Omega branded drawing material for my young daughters included if you ask gently).
If the Lange was a Ferrari 250 GTO, the SMP 300 master chronograph would be a Porsche 911 Turbo and I'm sad it doesn't quite get the recognition it deserves, although it's a watch that some can actually own without having to sell a kidney and/or wait for ten years. The underwater equivalent to the Speed Pro.
This watch is as aesthetically perfect as it is technically amazing.
The most eloquent description of a wristwatch I've ever come across.
Maybe because this is not a wristwatch, but rather THE Wristwatch.
1:22 - a good glimpse of our Watchfinder narrator.
Incredible engineering and attention to detail, and, of course, the supreme irony is that 99.9 per cent of people don't even need a chronograph, and those who do will use a digital stopwatch.
I’m late to this video and really enjoyed it - what an amazing piece of engineering.
While I was watching, I couldn’t help thinking that this is a complicated and expensive answer to a question that nobody asked.
Of course, to a very large extent that applies to mechanical watches in general. While a lot of people enjoy them, there are other, more accurate, ways to tell the time.
It makes it even more amazing that a company would push the boundaries of mechanical watch movements, to come up with something like this.
Fantastic!
That is a mightily impressive piece of engineering. This is why mechanical watches will always rule. Simply (but oh so complicated!) amazing!
9:43
Sometimes I come back here and chill out.
Outstanding!!!!!!!!
I got goose bumps listening to the intro!
and it lived up to the hype.
Same. Commented as well only to get your comment.
the depth of the shot at 7:28, holy mac'n'cheese
The big one's here... on my birthday! Thanks so much for bringing such masterpiece on such a special day 😍
Now go and treat yourself to one..and happy birthday by the way.
@@primecreator If I just had the €140k Lange ask for it... Well, at least dreaming comes for free, and thanks ☺️
It's stuff like this that got me into watches in the first place. ALS aside, if the average person were to be given a set of tools and told to dismantle the average Seiko, the mechanics inside would blow their minds.
6:31 that finishing on the seconds hand would catch many eyes
Are you seeing the reflection off of it? Amazing.
@@TurningGuns no I meant finishing on the hands is not of ALS quality..
Yes, some parts seem to be a bit weathered but bearing a 000/100 serial I guess this is an engineering sample / demo piece and thus has been disassembled and reassembled a few times.
@@bhavikshah5016 oh.
A big applaus for the watchmakers who make the dreams of the engineers come to life.
A. Lange going full blown Alexander the Great...And when A. Lange & Söhne saw the breadth of their domain, they wept, for there were no more worlds left to conquer.
Imagine having A. Lange & Söhne money and buying a Richard Mille.
6:10 paint mistake at the marker.. and at 6:33 the secondhand is just covered with burrs? what kind of finishing is this for a 150k watch
It's rare to see a perfect second hand..even high end Pateks often have finishing lacking on the second hands..guess they figure you'll never see the difference.