A. Lange & Söhne Product Development Director Anthony de Haas gets completely uninhibited about the Odysseus Chronograph
A. Lange & Söhne Product Development Director Anthony de Haas Speaks on the First Automatic Chronograph
On the occasion of this latest meeting, WOW Thailand editor Ruckdee Chotjinda is with us because we are visiting the A. Lange & Söhne manufacture in Glashütte. The conversation happened in a nondescript conference room with journalists from our region; also present are representatives from Robb Report Malaysia and QP Thailand.
Yeah, now we thought it’s a very, very, very complicated chronograph frankly, we said, you know what, let’s start with a limited edition in , and then we’ll see. Let us first deliver these hundred pieces, then we’ll see. Making the world mad with “it’s available everywhere…” when we know that we struggle a little bit …we have long waiting lists for the steel Odysseus, the standard one. And we have titanium and white gold ; we were really overwhelmed by the success…by the demand for the Odysseus.
At the moment , we have two watchmakers in training to make the calibre L156.1 . I say they are in training but they are not absolute beginners – they were previously working on the Triple Split. But the Odysseus Chronograph is so different to all the chronographs we have made before. I mean, yes there is a vertical clutch here but, as a watchmaker, when I hear ‘vertical clutch’ I think of something made industrially.
Developing , that is what you will never see because we are making something completely new. Maybe, these two watchmakers who will work on the Odysseus Chronograph will say “Oh, this is easy; I can do one a month,” but we just don’t know before we start. We need a reliable plan that tells us how much time we need to actually deliver.
Double-assembly has been standard at A. Lange & Söhne since the start. It is just how we work. Now, we tried to do just single assembly, with the Saxonia, once and it was a disaster. You think we would save time but we didn’t; we wasted time!
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