October 1994 is one of the few dates in modern watchmaking that genuinely earns the word landmark. That's when Walter Lange and Günter Blümlein put four watches in front of the press in Dresden and restarted a company that had spent more than four decades out of business. The Lange 1 was the one everybody went home talking about, with its off-center dial, outsize date lifted from the five-minute clock at the Semper Opera House in Dresden, and a layout where no indication crowds another.