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In this thought-provoking post, uaewatchguy challenges the prevailing market hype for certain steel sports watches by juxtaposing their grey market prices against the value proposition of A. Lange & Söhne timepieces. He questions whether Lange and Vacheron Constantin need to re-evaluate their sales and marketing strategies to gain broader recognition, sparking a robust debate within the community about brand positioning, innovation, and perceived value.
But please, I hope Lange continues to be under appreciated ! I have two and no intention to sell . Also congrats on the Zeitwerk, a truly amazing watch! Have you seen the new Z Date? It may very well be my next purchase...
I hope they will stay as is. And if you don't sell your watches, who cares? In the long run, I have not one Lange watch which lost on it's initial purchase value.... again pure hypothetical as none will be sold So let's enjoy the quality of watches instead of only hype. Br, Dirk
To the extent that it doesn’t make any sense anymore. It is a great time to buy beautifully complicated watches from many other brands at unbelievably low prices. The Rolex and Nautilus craziness just keeps going and going, but there is an important saying, what goes up must come down. Hypes never last, although I have the feeling it might be going on for a little longer. Recently, the same happened in the whisky market, where ultra rare bottles from the legendary Silvano Samaroli (Patek Nautilu
Interested to hear you expand on what measure do you think Lange is overrated? Is it finishing, production numbers, innovation, design, heritage or something else? In those categories, which brands do you think exceed Lange?
i think Lange and VC are both under appreciated - VC more so where it’s almost always dismissed. Both brands represent the very best of their respective styles and easily beat the competition. Unfortunately , the hype over PP SS models and professional Rolex is due to the prevalence of blogs and forums on the internet and people jumping on the bandwagon which did nothing but pushed the prices north. I personally doubt this will last much longer and will reach a point where people will hit the pa
Okay, first , Lange has only two case designs , so no innovation there . The finishing is nice , but the “ German Silver “ is a much softer metal than brass, so it’s much easier to work with ,also because of this softness the movements are not temperature adjusted therefore in the worm whether they run slower, in cold whether they run faster compared to they’re Swiss counterparts . Reliability used to be good but lately I hear more and more out of the factory defects . About heritage, the new La
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