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amerix
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My reaction to the dial

First of all, congratulations on this unusual piece and hoping that you will be enjoying it to the utmost.

Sadly not for me. I want to see at a glance what minute it is between 16 and 26 after the hour. Also there is the issue about how the large date also cuts, rather cruelly I find, into the minutes display.

Date and Seconds rule on this one! Also the two touching (tangent) circles, so far removed from the original design of the Lange I.

I am faced with a similar problem with the Pt Double Split, where reading (or setting!) the minutes between 26 and 34 requires some mental and visual acrobatics, sharp eyesight or a loupe being almost a prerequisite. That is fortunately gone with the current RG production, where the romans are replaced with baton markers. Would I trade or reconsider? No. Unless they had done it all over again in platinum...

May the Lume light your way!

amerix
This message has been edited by amerix on 2010-09-02 09:17:42 This message has been edited by amerix on 2010-09-02 09:24:29