{News published in 2009} Walter Lange, founder of A. Lange & S\u00f6hne celebrated his 85th birthday. When asked what his very first watch was, he answered “A Cyma”. I have always thought that this current desire to separate haute-horlogerie from the other was a mistake. It is unnatural. Swiss watchmaking history, whose upward excellence remains its best ambassador, has never ceased to be nourished by mass production watchmaking, by volumes. The main thing is to catch the virus and to militate for the recognition of the cultural dimension of watchmaking. A stabilizing dimension, contrary to periods that focus only on its status as an economic branch…<\/p>\n
Caption: Walter Lange in his youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
{News published in 2009} Walter Lange, founder of A. Lange & S\u00f6hne celebrated his 85th birthday. When asked what his very first watch was, he answered “A Cyma”. I have always thought that this current desire to separate haute-horlogerie from the other was a mistake. It is unnatural. Swiss watchmaking history, whose upward excellence remains…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3578,3599],"tags":[3780,3781,3779,3644,3783,3784,3785,3786,3787],"class_list":["post-10027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-features","category-view","tag-a-lange-sohne-en","tag-anniversaire-en","tag-cyma-en","tag-horlogerie-en","tag-lange-en","tag-montres-en","tag-suisse-en","tag-uhren-en","tag-watch-making-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n