A. Lange & Söhne centennial tourbillon returns to the Museum Bautzen

One of A. Lange & Söhne’s most famous and valuable pocket watches has returned to its place of origin, the Museum Bautzen, where it had been lost in the turmoil at the end of the Second World War. The elaborately designed gold hunter case with the artfully enamelled painting of the goddess Minerva is one of only a few tourbillons from the traditional Glashütte manufactory. The watch with the No. 41000 presented by Emil Lange at the 1900 Paris world fair went down in history as “centennial tourbillon”. This timepiece, which is extraordinary in every respect, inspired Walter Lange and Günter Blüm-lein to develop the TOURBILLON “Pour le Mérite” after the re-establishment in 1990.