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My favorite watch in the world today. Hope to own one someday.

Hoping it's one of these with blue hands. (Longshot: time-and-moon only, no date? I honestly think it'd look better without the date.)

Lange 1 purists probably don't care for the Daymatic, but it's growing on me. A day-of-week indicator is much more useful than a huge power-reserve dial on an automatic, and you get nearly all of the utility of an annual calendar (unless you frequently lose track of what month it is) without looking

...to why these photos turned out well: 1. Great subject. 2. Great lighting (off-camera speedlights). 3. Great glass (a macro lens). Get those, and any camera shines.

The number paint is indeed raised slightly from the dial. One thing I love about the Up/Down, and one of the reasons I chose it: no cut-off "6". (I respect the historical reasons why that's done on the other 1815s, but if given the option to have no cut-off numerals, I'll take it — pretending for th

As thanks for the great info I've gotten from this community, here's some shots of my first and only Lange so far, which certainly won't be my last: the current-gen 1815 Up/Down.

Thanks, all very fair points, and some that I hadn't noticed.

...by Lange (or Alkis) for a relatively reasonable price? How does platinum patina over time? The color is fairly stable, right? Changes in the dial color would be concerning. Think the platinum model's dial would noticeably shift from the original silver/white color?

Hi everyone. Thanks for the wonderful info and photos over the last few months. (Hope nobody minds that I also posted this on TimeZone.) As a huge fan of the 1815 series, I'm considering buying one of the (very few) 1815 Automatiks that occasionally come on the market (303.021, 303.025, 303.032), ma