Comments on: A. Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk – Winner Of The 2009 L’Aiguille d’Or http://thewatchlounge.com/a-lange-sohne-zeitwerk-winner-of-the-2009-laiguille-dor/ Tue, 15 May 2012 23:58:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tom Mulraney http://thewatchlounge.com/a-lange-sohne-zeitwerk-winner-of-the-2009-laiguille-dor/comment-page-1/#comment-747 Tom Mulraney Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:11:58 +0000 http://thewatchlounge.com/?p=674#comment-747 Hi Charles, thank you for your comment. I certainly can understand your reasoning and to a degree you are probably right; to the casual (read 'uneducated' observer) this could very well appear as a far more simplistic watch than it actually is. As I'm sure you would have read above the jumping hour and minute complications are exceptionally complex and extremely difficult to master, hence the reason this timepiece is held in such high regard. Having said that though, I think it comes down to a matter of personal taste as the above piece certainly does not look like your conventional mechanical watch. Although, I reckon in the flesh no one would confuse this exceptional timepiece for a cheap Casio :) Hi Charles, thank you for your comment. I certainly can understand your reasoning and to a degree you are probably right; to the casual (read ‘uneducated’ observer) this could very well appear as a far more simplistic watch than it actually is.

As I’m sure you would have read above the jumping hour and minute complications are exceptionally complex and extremely difficult to master, hence the reason this timepiece is held in such high regard. Having said that though, I think it comes down to a matter of personal taste as the above piece certainly does not look like your conventional mechanical watch.

Although, I reckon in the flesh no one would confuse this exceptional timepiece for a cheap Casio :)

]]> By: Charles http://thewatchlounge.com/a-lange-sohne-zeitwerk-winner-of-the-2009-laiguille-dor/comment-page-1/#comment-746 Charles Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:57:16 +0000 http://thewatchlounge.com/?p=674#comment-746 This looks like a very clever design (extremely impressive, actually), but isn't the end result essentially just a digital watch? You said in your article "Finding the right watch for you": "A guy’s first assumption when you wear a digital watch is that you are not able to read analogue time, which is not a good thing." Wearing this watch here could give people the same impression, couldn't it? This looks like a very clever design (extremely impressive, actually), but isn’t the end result essentially just a digital watch? You said in your article “Finding the right watch for you”: “A guy’s first assumption when you wear a digital watch is that you are not able to read analogue time, which is not a good thing.” Wearing this watch here could give people the same impression, couldn’t it?

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