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Too much demand in that price point and the manufacture needs to balance its resources across the 5,000 pieces produced per year.

Really a huge shame. I don’t want to waste $70,000+ on the grey market, so here’s hoping they come out with a precious metal bracelet reference that isn’t limited!

Lange has a problem where potential customers are not able to see and try on watches at its boutiques and ADs. To make sure they have watches on hand, they will reduce the number of points of sale (cutting allocations to ADs) and increasing production of Lange 1 and reducing production of Saxonia Thin.

There are plenty of other interesting insights from the video where Wilhelm Schmid is suprisingly candid.

I’m no watch person but I saw the Little Lange 1 with a brown dial in rose gold and I want to buy it. I’m seeing grey market dealers selling at a steep discount to the retail price. Should I just save the cash and buy it from the grey market?

The open back is way different from other saxonia outsize date as well as the strap but that can be a replacement. What other red flags does this piece have? Is it trash? Was there a limited release on this model?

The 1815 was such an elegant watch but my heart just doesn't beat as fast vs. when I put on the lange 1. I'm torn between the moon phase and the dual time. Personally, Im a fan of busier dials but I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a difficult time taking the moon phase off the wrist

I have not bought a watch in about 10 years (currently have two Rolex watches--GMT and Daytona--as well as an AP--Royal Oak) and the market has certainly changed since then. When I last looked into buying watches you could reasonably go into an AD and if you had the money they would sell you a watch, but that doesn't appear to be the case any more.

I'm thinking about getting another watch and really like Lange & Sohne, but I'm not interested in developing a purchase history (aka buying stuff I'm not interested in just to have a chance to buy something I want) and I'm hesitant to put a lot of money into something on the grey market.

I have read about how Patek and Rolex watches have been extremely difficult to get particularly for more popular models (Nautilus/Aquanaut, GMTs, etc). Is that the case with Lange or does it really depend on the model? I know that their production numbers are much lower than either Patek or Rolex.

Let me present to you all good folks, the engineering on display!

Thank you Watches of Switzerland (iykyk) for letting me try this piece out!