Even the backs of parts are decorated, despite the fact that they will never be seen by anyone unless the Tag Heuer Grand Carrera Chronograph Calibre 17 RS CAV514C.FC8171 Mens Watch is disassembled. Custom engraving was happening in another quiet room, with a special hunter-style Lange 1 case for a particular collector. I was forbidden to take photographs of this case so I belong to a privileged few who will see it.Once parts are decorated, assembly happens in yet another room. Subassemblies are put together, hairsprings coiled and balances set and measured. We watched as one technician adjusted the balance since he was not happy with its rate in one position of the five in which it was checked. Final assembly is by expert Tag Heuer Grand Carrera Chronograph Calibre 17 RS CAV514C.FC8171 Mens Watch , trained to work on the specific movements. They assemble, test, adjust and then the entire thing is disassembled, cleaned and re-assembled with screws replaced with new, blued steel ones. Its a painstaking process, with some models taking months to complete.
The A. Lange & Söhne manufacture lies in the small town of Glashütte, 25 kilometers from Dresden. Our taxi descended the steep grade into town and past the original Lange building from the 1840s, which had been demolished in World War II and subsequently rebuilt, to the new building, where all manufacturing takes place today.Our small group of journalists joined Lange's gracious PR manager, Christian (pictured here), and donned the white coats of a watchmaker for our tour through the stages of movement production. First stop was the CNC machining room, where precision cutting machines, guided by custom computer programs, cut the movement plates and traced the outlines of smaller parts. To see this process gives one even more awe for the manufacture of Tag Heuer Grand Carrera Chronograph Calibre 17 RS CAV514C.FC8171 Mens Watch in the pre-mechanized age when it was all done by hand.From high-tech to handiwork, we moved into the decoration room, where workers bent like reverent worshipers, over their benches, using wood-handled hand tools to etch, chamfer and engrave individual movement parts.
