Pour le Mérite

Although I am biased as an owner of one of these great watches, the RG PLM is the zenith for me. In Rose Gold with the enamel dial (a must in my opinion) the watch evokes memories and the feel of the great Lange pocket watches of the past, which I think w

Would you mind sharing what the other 4 are? My top 5 are (in no particular order) the 1815 rattrapante (in honey gold), the zeitwerk, the PLM tourbillon, the Richard Lange minute repeater, and the 1815 chrono (controversial, but I like it more than the d

but I have mixed feelings. I don’t really like the lateral PR indicator and even if the movement is very nicely designed and finished, its German style speaks to me less than the traditional Swiss style. That said, I love their needle seconds hand and the

Of the various editions, the Hong Kong edition is my favorite due to it's more uniform dial appearance, but my true favorite here is the JK Meisterwerk. It has something about it reminiscent to me of the PLM Richard Lange . Thank you very much Emmanuel fo

I’ve never ordered from them before, but am going to buy a few straps for my Lange PLM now. Everything I’ve bought in the past decade or more has been Jean Rousseau, as it’s easy given there’s a store in NYC. And in many cases I went fully custom.

Tourbillions in Lange, even at today’s somewhat depressed prices, were never interesting. Unless it was the original PLM. But the trio of Dato, ZW and PLM. That’s a line up to compare to anything anyone else can offer. And each one, even the ZW, as you sa

It’s kinda how I’ve been with the Zeitwerk. Although the new ZW’s case is a definite improvement in terms it being less chunky and potentially more wearable for me. Even this PLM is boarder line for me on lug to lug size. It’s not quite right and starting

If my Urwerk 105-CT is my “Dark Knight” then I think this Richard Lange Pour le Mérite is my “Dark Lord”. More elegant, classic and understated (aside from the case which really should be smaller). I do still go back and forth on whether if there was only

The fusee-and-chain transmission is a way of providing a constant even force to the escapement as the mainspring unwinds itself throughout its range of power reserve. The fusee (from the French fusée , wire wound around a spindle) is a cone-shaped pulley

This is interesting (but maybe only to me -- we'll see). When Lange relaunched in 1994, they began numbering casebacks starting with 110001 and movements starting with 1. So we typically saw a difference of about 110000 between the caseback number and the