A. Lange & Söhne

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Thanks for bringing it up again ...

and to me it is much more than an entry level watch.

FX you wrote "an old entry level" - somehow provocative, isn´t it?

What else does someone need in a watch?

Simple watches like this have been our parents/grandparents treasures in the past.
Well, not from ALS (in these days), but from the best houses (PP, VC, Omega, ...).
They all did a great job for most occassions and lots of them are still alive.

1815 (old) - a few years ago, there have been dithyrambs about the watch and at least one
(I/we know) has had them all - for a good reason
And isn´t it somewhat quit regarding the new one? For sure it is not, because it is a bad watch.

I applaud ALS for doing the same kind of incredible job in each watch from their collection.
No exceptions. Only I wished say would still offer something like this. Of course there
is a new 1815, but to be honest the price tag is different.

They do it for good reasons, for sure, but thinking back a few years ago it helped me a lot
to jump in to the wonderful world of ALS - a classic piece of Haute Horlogerie with a reasonable price tag.

Lots of brands try to do the most complicated, most special, most .. watches,
but honestly I think it is much more chalenging to offer a perfectly done simple watch
with a reasonable price tag in these days.

 Two questiones come to my mind:

• What is a good price for an "entry level" (don´t like the term) watch in this league, today?
  (Please, no numbers question isn´t meant that way ;-) )
  
  
• Can´t we appreciate simple watches, anymore? What has happened to us?