With 18 product awards in 2007, this has been the most successful year in the historyof the traditional German watch brand. And two A. Lange & Söhne timepieces have just been voted “Watch of the Year 2007” in Vienna.
With a total of 18 international product awards, themost successful year in the short history of the traditional A. Lange & Söhne brand,which was re-established in 1990, is coming to an end. Since the launch of the firstcollection of watches 13 years ago, these refined timepieces from Saxony havescooped more than a hundred awards, including 64 first prizes.
In this year's vote for the “Watch of the Year” in Vienna the LANGE 31 and the GRANDSAXONIA AUTOMATIK were clear winners in the “Complicated Mechanics” and“Classic Elegance” categories. This was the eleventh time that an A. Lange & Söhnewatch was voted number one by readers of the leading Austrian daily newspaper "DiePresse". The LANGE 31 also secured second place in the new “Watch Innovations ofthe Year” category. The awards were collected by Walter Lange, the founder of thecompany.
Just two weeks previously readers of the Austrian business magazine “Format” hadawarded two first prizes and a third prize to A. Lange & Söhne timepieces in the magazine's “Chrono Awards”. The LANGE 31 and the SAXONIA AUTOMATIK cameout top in the “First Class” and “Business Class” categories and the CABARET “Soirée” secured third prize in the “Ladies Special” category. Lange watches have also wonawards this year in Switzerland, USA, Russia, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands andthe United Arab Emirates.
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