A. Lange & Söhne has released a platinum version of its Triple Split, reference 424.025F, limited to 100 pieces at a retail price of €210,000. It is the third iteration of a chronograph the Glashütte maison first introduced in 2018 and has revisited only twice since.
The case measures 43.2mm by 15.6mm and pairs a rhodium-plated dial with two gray sub-dials, a more restrained finish than the slate-gray dial of the 2018 white gold original or the blue dial of the 2021 pink gold version, which first appeared in white gold in 2018 and returned in pink gold in 2021. The movement inside is unchanged.
That movement is the hand-wound caliber L132.1, assembled from 567 parts and visible through the display case back. A. Lange & Söhne describes the Triple Split as the only watch capable of measuring intermediate and comparative times across an aggregate duration of up to 12 hours.
Three pushers run the watch. The one at 2 o'clock starts and stops the chronograph, setting all three sets of seconds, minutes and hours hands moving together from the moment it is pressed. At 4 o'clock, a second pusher triggers the flyback function, resetting the hands to zero.
A third pusher, at 10 o'clock, controls the rattrapante mechanism itself. Pressed while the chronograph runs, it stops three blue rattrapante hands to record an intermediate time while the main chronograph hands keep moving underneath, then snaps the stopped hands back into sync when pressed again.
Reading a busy dial
The dial carries four central hands plus a jumping 30-minute counter at 4 o'clock, a 12-hour counter at 12 o'clock, a small-seconds sub-dial at 8 o'clock and Lange's AB/AUF power reserve indicator at 6 o'clock, showing up to 55 hours of remaining reserve.
Splitting the rattrapante hands and advancing the minute counters adds friction to the movement, so Lange built a patented disengagement mechanism that temporarily disconnects friction-heavy operations from the seconds and minute-counter arbors. That keeps enough power reaching the balance wheel to hold timekeeping steady.
A maison built on precision
A. Lange & Söhne, based in Glashütte in southeast Germany, makes it a stated mission to keep expanding the frontiers of watchmaking, adapting and refining its own methods in pursuit of mechanical perfection rather than chasing trends season to season.
The finishing on the L132.1 reflects that approach: straight graining on the upper surfaces of levers and springs, polished circumferential chamfers on their edges, and sharp internal angles chamfered and polished by hand without softening their geometry, a demanding technique in fine watchmaking.
Five gold, screwed chatons and hand-engraved balance cock decoration complete the movement, alongside bridges made of untreated German silver finished with Glashütte ribbing, details the maison has used across its collections since it returned to watchmaking in 1994.
Where Lange stands among its rivals
In our ranking of the best luxury watch brands, we place Rolex at the top for build quality, value retention and recognition, with Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin forming the classic holy trinity of haute horlogerie above it.
We rank that field on heritage, in-house movement-making, value retention and design language, and we note that Germany's A. Lange & Söhne is now firmly in that top conversation, a position a movement as complex as the L132.1 helps explain.
Each edition has kept the same 567-part caliber while changing only the case metal and dial finish.
A. Lange & Söhne has not indicated whether a fourth metal or dial variant of the Triple Split will follow the platinum edition, and the 100-piece run puts a hard limit on how many buyers will be able to secure one at launch.
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