The Odysseus Honeygold 363.150 is the first Odysseus made entirely of A. Lange & Söhne's proprietary Honeygold, case and bracelet alike, and it was presented at Watches and Wonders 2025 as a limited edition of 100 pieces. Its bracelet is the first solid Honeygold bracelet in the manufacture's history, and it made the Odysseus the first Lange sports watch on a full gold bracelet. Until this model, every Odysseus had been made in Stainless Steel, in White Gold on a rubber strap or in Titanium, all cool-toned metals paired with Blue, Grey, Ice Blue or Black dials. The Honeygold edition turned the family warm for the first time, matching the alloy's soft golden shade with a Brown dial in what Lange describes as the fourth colour and material version of the three-hand Odysseus. Honeygold itself is reserved for special and limited Lange pieces, which gives this reference a standing inside the Odysseus family that the regular models do not share. It also connects Lange's youngest collection with the metal the manufacture uses to mark its most important occasions, a link that had not existed before 2025 and that immediately set the watch apart from every earlier version of the line.
The case keeps the Odysseus dimensions of 40.5 mm in diameter and 11.1 mm in height, with the family's rounded bezel, sculpted lugs and the two pushers that flank the screw-down crown like guards. In Honeygold the proportions read differently. The alloy has a paler, gentler warmth than Rose Gold, closer to the colour of honey that gives it its name, and Lange emphasises it with vertical satin brushing on the broad surfaces and polished chamfers along the edges. The five-row bracelet is integrated into the case and continues the same pattern of brushed links and polished bevels. Honeygold is harder than conventional gold alloys, which makes it more resistant to everyday marks but considerably more demanding to machine into small bracelet components. The deployant buckle includes a fine adjustment of up to 7 mm that can be used without opening the clasp. The Brown dial is brass, a deep tobacco shade that sits comfortably against the gold, with the embossed grooves on the chapter ring and on the outer track of the recessed small seconds that the other Odysseus dials share. The hour and minute hands and the notched baton markers are Honeygold, and the day and date windows are framed in the same metal, with white lettering on a Brown ground so the calendar reads cleanly.
Functionally the Honeygold model is a classic Odysseus, which is part of its appeal. The self-winding movement shows hours, minutes and small seconds, while the outsize date fills a broad double aperture on the right of the dial and the weekday sits opposite it at 9 o'clock in a matching frame. The two displays are corrected independently with the pushers at 2 and 4 o'clock, so the calendar can be set after a short month without disturbing the time. This dedicated correction system was designed for the Odysseus in 2019 and keeps the calendar practical on a watch meant to be worn every day and occasionally set aside. The movement uses a central rotor with a Platinum mass, runs for 50 hours when fully wound and is fitted with a balance spring made in-house, on a balance with four poising screws. Behind the sapphire caseback, the movement displays Glashütte ribbing, the balance cock is engraved by hand and a gold chaton is held by screws, and the movement is assembled twice, first for adjustment and then again after decoration and cleaning. None of that changes from the Stainless Steel model, which means the Honeygold edition is a statement in material and colour built on a movement that has served the whole family since its launch.
Honeygold first appeared in 2010, when A. Lange & Söhne used it for the Lange 1 'Homage to F. A. Lange', marking 165 years since Ferdinand Adolph Lange founded watchmaking in Glashütte in 1845. Since then the alloy has been used only for limited and special editions, among them versions of the Lange 1, the 1815 and the Datograph, and it has become the metal most closely tied to the manufacture's anniversaries and landmark releases. Bringing it to the Odysseus placed the sports family alongside those pieces for the first time. The Odysseus line itself had grown steadily since its launch in October 2019: the Stainless Steel 363.179 with a Blue dial, the White Gold 363.068 with a Grey dial in 2020, the Titanium 363.117 with an Ice Blue dial as a limited edition of 250 in 2022, and the Odysseus Chronograph 463.178 in 2023, Lange's first self-winding chronograph. The Honeygold model followed at Watches and Wonders 2025 alongside the Minute Repeater Perpetual and a 34 mm 1815, and it confirmed that Lange intended the Odysseus to carry its most exclusive material as well as its most practical design. Every earlier Honeygold Lange had been fitted with a strap, so the 363.150 also stands as the first appearance of the alloy on a metal bracelet.
With only 100 pieces, the 363.150 is the scarcest three-hand Odysseus and the most precious version of the family, and it brings together two things collectors rarely find in one watch from Glashütte: an integrated gold bracelet and the manufacture's own alloy. It appeals first to collectors of Honeygold, who follow the metal across Lange's limited editions and for whom this is the only example on a bracelet. It also speaks to collectors of gold sports watches who want an alternative to the familiar Yellow Gold and Rose Gold references from Switzerland, with a warmer, less assertive shade and a Brown dial that reads as refined rather than showy. For owners of the Stainless Steel or Titanium Odysseus, it is the natural next step within the family, offering the same dimensions and the same calendar layout in an entirely different register. Worn on its adjustable Honeygold bracelet, the watch has the weight and presence of solid gold while remaining a watch that can be worn every day, which is exactly what the Odysseus was designed to be from the start.
