{
  "id": 19375397,
  "title": "A Lange & Söhne’s Anthony de Haas on Seikos, regrets and Radar Love",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/a-lange-sohnes-anthony-de-haas-on-seikos-regrets-and-radar-love",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-10T18:04:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "City AM",
    "slug": "city-am",
    "url": "https://www.cityam.com/a-lange-sohne-anthony-de-haas-seikos-regrets-radar-love/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Anthony de Haas, director of product development at A Lange & Söhne, shares his passion for watches and the emotional side of collecting. He currently wears a prototype of the Minute Repeater Perpetual, which is being tested for a new lubrication. De Haas owns around 10 to 11 watches, including a Lange, Seikos, two Longines, and an IWC from his early days working at the latter brand. He admits he's not a big collector, and his first proper watch was a Longines automatic from 1979. When asked about his first watch, he reminisced about his Seiko 5, a simple automatic watch he still owns, which holds emotional value for him. De Haas prefers timeless designs and avoids trendy or flashy watches. If his house were on fire, he would grab his Lange watch, as it holds the most emotional significance for him. There are no regrets about purchases, as he only buys watches he intends to wear. He also regrets not keeping a damaged Longines he restored during watchmaking school, which he eventually received as a leaving gift.",
  "summary": "The world of watches is often buried beneath glossy PR scripts, corporate data sheets, and carefully rehearsed press events. Making Time is a chance to strip all that away by pulling up a chair with some of the industry’s most influential figures and passionate watch collectors, a chance to talk about the human reality of [...]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}