Reply With QuoteLooks like a cross between a parking and an electricity meter
A Zeitwerk Minute Repeater in platinum. New with b&p and a two year guarantee. (Yes, a whole two years.)
A snip at a quarter of a million quid.
(This is not a sales post.)
Looks like a cross between a parking and an electricity meter
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Well, it's nearly as big.Originally Posted by seikopath
Great description! Don’t like it so just as well I can’t afford it.
Looks like a normal Zeitwerk - for that money where are my diamonds so I can really show off that bad boy
Possibly the best and most apt spur-of-the-moment reaction to a watch that I’ve ever read
ET with a cue ball in his gob
My favourite brand. I know some of their designs are divisive, but that makes me like it even more. But not this one, because I’d rather pay for craftsmanship and engineering than rare metals. I shall spend my spare quarter mil elsewhere.
Or everyone's favourite
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The weird bit is that someone will buy it.
Lucky them.
It’s an ugly bugger.
I actually like these - not so much at a quarter million, but the ‘standard’ model without minute repeater which is more like £40k - bargain :)
Lange movements are fascinating. The two wheel solution to the date numerals is ingenious how it’s done. Saw this diagram recently
That’s so clever!Lange movements are fascinating. The two wheel solution to the date numerals is ingenious how it’s done. Saw this diagram recently
Lange have produced some absolutely stunning watches over the years, this is absolutely NOT one of them!A Zeitwerk Minute Repeater in platinum. New with b&p and a two year guarantee. (Yes, a whole two years.)
A snip at a quarter of a million quid.
(This is not a sales post.)
250K is a joke and remember that Platinum is currently 32% CHEAPER than gold!(Spot prices)
Is that what you call fugly ?
But also a lot harder to process. Nevertheless all PM’s are inflated due to their status
If I had unlimited spare cash, exactly non of it would be spent on such an abomination.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
In what way is platinum harder to process than gold?
Or steel for that matter.
I don’t think I’d be spending a quarter of a million on any watch (well maybe a George Daniels) but certainly not on that one.
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That movement is a thing of beauty in its own right. Unlike the watch.
I don't like it.
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Just as well. Saved you a right few quid there!
My quarter of a million can remain inside my mattress. ;-)
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I saw one on someones wrist just last week oddly enough. He was sitting across from me for a whole hour.
It was interesting to look at but only in the same way that a big wart on his nose would have been.
Drew my eye, but more in a... "really" kind of way than a "that's cool" kind of way.
Each to their own though...he could afford it that's for sure.
Sums it up perfectly.
Yet another watch where crafts(wo)men toil to make amazing movements which are then stuck inside a watch design only its mother (and a small selection of people on TZ who'll call it 'gorgeous') could love. More and more I think watchmakers are a self-serving lot. They're so pissed off with having their works of art encased in something my two-and-a-half-year-old might draw that they make sure the only people who'll get any pleasure from looking at the movement will be the watchmakers and repairers who'll work on them in the future.
"A man of little significance"
Tbh i don't think the average tz'er is the target market.
All you need is a couple of Russian oligarchs or Saudi Princes to like it and boooom
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
And yet, when someone buys a Zeitwerk:
I'm particularly enjoying this evolution from eager-to-please newbie:
to sneering toad:
It really is very clever.
Can’t and unlikely to ever have to make the buying decision. BUT if I could I would want this with great desire. Technical tour de force and the design is sufficiently off the wall for me to enjoy it on my wrist.
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analogous to why you buy an audi when the Alfaromeo is much much nicer looking
because of the engineering inside
Strange.
If a £250 or £1000 watch looked like that no-one would buy it.
It’s got a bit of the F P Journe about it, in a general aesthetic sense at least. I imagine it would be a lot more impressive in the hand than on a photo.
I think someone on here once mentioned that it looks like a picture of a moose on the dial. To whoever it was, thank you, I can’t unsee that now. Though the comment about the Nautilus and toilet seats was worse...
Seriously expensive abomination, I don't like it, and even less for 250k.
While my previous comment was more in jest, I am a big fan of the Zeitwerk and it really is stunning. People forget this is also a minute repeater which in conjunction with the layout is pretty damn impressive.
I am a huge minute repeater fan, but never heard the chime of this. Plus I thought that platinum wasn't necessarily ideal for the sound, with rose gold or titanium usually preferred but I dunno enough about these things.
I appreciate the Lange movements, but really dislike their designs. This is no different.
I used to find them universally chilly, but I find myself warming to a couple of them eg
Praise JLC, they devised it.
If you want clever, to the point of having been patented, then look at the Glashutte Original big date design.
Nailed the hammer on the head !!!
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Well pointed out. The GO implementation so the numbers are on one plane is aesthetically much nicer. This Lange implementation has always annoyed me. I guess now seen as a Lange 'quirk'....
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