A. Lange & Söhne is not the largest watch manufacture and they prefer to keep it that way. Nevertheless, in name and by way of reputation, they are amongst the titans of the watch world. Precision is an attitude at their base of operations in Glashütte, Germany that becomes ever more evident with every step you take past the A. Lange & Söhne doors.

The question, when it comes to the A. Lange & Söhne Double Split chronograph is this: is it truly new or just another take on an old subject? In fact, it is truly a new idea that marks the evolution of a classic watchmaking complication.

Basically, the Double Split is a chronograph meant to record periods of time, events, with great precision. In the mid 1800’s the idea for a split seconds chronograph emerged. This mechanism allowed two events to be compared via the same watch. This is useful for any kind of racing activity. But there was one drawback to all these previous split chronographs: they could only record comparative differences of one minute or less. If you had two events that might elapse over the course of more than one minute, you had to mentally keep track of the minutes. By way of contrast, the Double Split allows a comparative record of two events to be precisely generated for up to 30 minutes.