Ferdinand-Adolph Lange died 150 years ago this year. The name should be familiar, as the man’s watchmaking would go on to shape a sleepy town in rural Germany and the broader world, even to this day. For all the attention on Swiss watchmaking, the horological world has always been wider than one country could bear, and Glashütte’s watchmaking minds have never stopped going punch-for-punch with the best anywhere. As evidence in the metal, Dr. Helmut Crott, whose knowledge frankly knows very little bounds and curatorial and collecting skills put him up with the best in the world, has put together a traveling exhibition of Glashütte’s best. Curated by the man himself and put on by Phillips, the watches come from Dr. Crott’s personal collection and represent a broad range of the A. Lange & Söhne and the wider town’s story.
