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My First Lange - PG Datograph

Greetings:

I have been lurking around here for many months and have been reading about the Lange Watches.  I have also been dreaming about the day that I would eventually be able to own a Lange watch for myself.

            My love for watches began when I was 17 years old in 1972.  I bought the Omega Speed Master Chronograph (Moon Watch).  I love that watch and wear it to this day (even though I do not anticipate much wrist time in the near future).  That watch spent more time in the pawn shop than on my wrist – due to my former love of poker!  Then I became enamored with Breitling Watches, Chronomat, Navitimers (Olympus and Daytora) as well as an all gold Chronomat for dress.  I thought my collecting would end right there.

            Then I happened to wander on to this site and it was all over for me.  I lusted for a Lange.  I wasn’t sure if it was to be the Datograph or the Langematik Perpetual?  Platinum or Gold?  I read everything on this site.  People who loved the Dato, those who loved the LP.  Those who had the PT Dato and sold them for the PG Dato.  Those who will only wear PT.  The debates, the differences of opinions, and the pros and the cons.  But above it all, I read about the love for Lange watches and the respect and camaraderie that you have for each other. 

I decided to take the advice given by so many, “Go to your AD and see it in the metal.”  4 watches were laid out in front of me: a PG and PT of the Dato and the LP.   I went in leaning towards the PT Dato.  As much as wanted my first PT watch, they were not warm, they didn’t speak to me, with all due respect for those that love their PT watches.  It was down to the PG Dato and the PG LP.  I decided to turn the watches over and my mind was made up.   When I saw the movement of the Dato, there was no turning back.  The movement was so deep that my immediate thought was to take off my shoes and socks and jump right in!

Monday night I picked up my new PG Dato and I am in love (my wife accepts it).  I had some fears that after reading people’s dissatisfaction about the 39mm size, that I might be disappointed.  Not at all, it is a classic size which is great for my wrist.  I realize that the economy is not that strong right now, and I spent a lot of money, but I have no regrets at all.  Well I do actually have one regret – that I didn’t get it sooner.

Thank you all for your help and amazing insights and amazing pictures and I am sorry for the lengthy post.

I knew I was nuts and that I belong on this forum, when the night before I picked up my first Lange, I was thinking about how sweet the Richard Lange in platinum would be………..

Mark