Watches - another OCD problem
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Lange was brought back to life by Walter Lange in the nineties, and passed away last year. To commemorate him, they produced a series of watches in precious metals, along with a unique, steel piece, pictured below, which is going to be auctioned off for a truly obscene amount of money.
Of course, the real showstopper is the movement…
The watch has a small seconds display, which runs as a sweep, and the centre seconds jumps.
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Except for all those misaligned screws.
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@JDelage the photo of the movement is from one of the white gold models. It's one of a handful of images of the back of this watch, and was a bit of a struggle to find.
@DougNg I agree with you on the Lange (and MOLLE webbing in the bags thread). It looks like your opinions are getting more popular!
@Chris hopefully a watchmaker will start aligning screws, so your OCD can get a rest.
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This is the Ulysse Nardin Diver Le Locle. It's a tasteful, cool, vintage inspired watch, with a high-tech movement at its heart. Monochrome has a write-up if you want to know more.
Somehow the same company has produced the Diver Deep Dive, which is neither tasteful nor cool. On the upside, it has sharks on the dial. Monochrome also has a write-up from SIHH, though I'm not convinced you'll want to know more. :o
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But that Diver Deep Dive is a limited edition, so it's bound to increase in value, right?
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Hodinkee are reporting on a couple of new Zenith chronographs.
First up is the Zenith Defy El Primero 21 with a Panda dial. I saw the skeletonised model a few weeks back, which I think looks better, but this one would be easier to read. I believe it's cheaper too.
There's a debate as to whether the second Zenith logo on the crystal is a sticker or not. I'm hoping it's the latter, as it looks messy in the photo.
The other is the Zenith Tipo CP-2, which is an unlimited version of the limited edition CP-2 released last year. The differences are that the new model has either an aged stainless steel or bronze case (pictured below), rather than polished steel, a display back has been added, and it's now a flyback movement.
Both pieces look good. They're pretty large watches (44 and 43 mm respectively), which has elicited comments from the peanut gallery at Hodinkee, but I like them. Of the two, I'd go for the Defy.
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That brass flyback is stunning.
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"Aged" stainless steel? C'mon Zenith, isn't the point of stainless steel that it doesn't, y'know, age?
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P.S. Zenith Jumped the shark years ago…https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
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It's a great watch, one of my favourites actually.
I too like the smurf, the dial is beautiful as is the weight of the (stealth) white gold…but I'm not really into precious metals. They're more reasonably priced on the secondary market...but I say save some green, buy the Hulk and get some IH gear!!
Have a great weekend gents.
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@neph93 aren't you meant to stay in the other watch thread? A Rolex isn't in the less intimidating category, though if that's your grail, it might be better to go straight there.
@goosehd there are rumours that Rolex might discontinue the Hulk in the very near future, but I think that they're repeated every year. I suspect that the movements will be upgraded to the new and improved design, and that'd give them an excuse to refresh the range.
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@Giles the Swiss watch companies don't need an excuse to increase prices, they do it anyway. The trouble is that they also markup stock held in store, which was paid for a year or two earlier in some cases.
For example, I had an email off the Chopard Boutique in London in March last year, telling me that the LUC 8HF they had in stock, and they'd contacted me about a year earlier, was going up by around £1000. It was still there in September.
It's probably why some in trouble now, because they've made themselves less affordable. In fact, there was a trend at SIHH to bring down the prices of some models.
