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The Triple Split is the inevitable progression, adding a split-hour function to allow timing two multi-hour events up to 12 hours (or longer if you have a notepad).
To the non-mechanically inclined, this might seem like a small addition. But it is effectively like building a chronograph on top of three other chronographs (I’ll come back to this later).
The Triple Split is, at its most basic level, a column wheel chronograph that tracks elapsed hours, minutes, and seconds while displaying the running seconds and a power reserve.
It also has a rattrapante feature, commonly known as the split-second function, that allows one chronograph counter for seconds to be stopped while the other continues. In the case of the Double Split this ability was added to the minute counter.
The Triple Split adds it yet again to the hours. Now each counter has the ability to track two concurrent times, adding extreme flexibility to a mechanical chronograph.
Like every A. Lange & Söhne timepiece, the dial is still perfectly balanced with clean proportions, making it very easy to read. No matter the complication, Lange’s designers will never let a dial become overly cluttered. And this is a great example of adding features while essentially keeping the same look.
It helps that the split seconds, minutes, and hours are all coaxial to their dials so that everything can stay neatly tucked away. But what is actually more impressive is that the size of the case and movement didn’t get much bigger with the new Triple Split movement.
This keeps the watch as wearable as its predecessor, which I’ll admit is a large watch, but not massive by any means.
Still, it’s holding all that mechanical goodness inside. And that’s the reason we are all here.
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