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A short hands-on with the Lange Odysseus
Oct 24, 2019,11:09 AM
Glad to be able to view and have some hands on time with the highly anticipated Odysseus, Lange’s first steel sports watch
The 40.5mm steel case and 11.1mm thickness wears perfectly on my small wrist. I also appreciate that Lange came out with a new manufacture caliber L155.1 (also known as the Datomatic) together with this new model. It features Day and Date windows with quick set pushers on the right side of the case. And the pushers are as per the usual Lange standard, buttery smooth.
My personal take is that the bracelet is well build and finished to a high standard. It even has easy to use micro-adjustment which is a very nice touch. However it does not pair very well with the case and dial. Somehow it straddles somewhere between elegant and sporty but not enough on either aspects. The bracelet is an integral part of a modern luxury sports model and I feel it can be better here. I understand that there will be straps option coming for the Odysseus next year and I hope that Lange will come out with a nice rubber strap for the Odysseus. I believe the Odysseus will definitely look better on a nice quality rubber strap. This will enable the watch to better embrace its intended identity as a luxury sports watch.
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A short hands-on with the Lange Odysseus
By: singingbee : October 24th, 2019-11:09
Glad to be able to view and have some hands on time with the highly anticipated Odysseus, Lange’s first steel sports watch The 40.5mm steel case and 11.1mm thickness wears perfectly on my small wrist. I also appreciate that Lange came out with a new manuf...
The watch is appealing
By: singingbee : November 9th, 2019-17:45
Only the bracelet asthethically doesn’t live up to the other parts
Thank you, great pics...
By: SALMANPK : October 24th, 2019-11:35
I agree with you, as the line matures and more options come out things might get better with time. S
The clasp
By: watch-er : October 24th, 2019-12:27
is already pretty scratched up that one
I thought
By: MTR : October 24th, 2019-14:25
this was just the wrapped plastic? Best, Thomas
Count me in!
By: BABKA : October 24th, 2019-13:45
Thanks for the superb wrist shot!
Thank you
By: batholith : October 24th, 2019-16:17
Great to see the photographs. As you say, it would be very interesting to see this on a rubber strap as well.
Agreed entirely.
By: batholith : November 9th, 2019-23:39
Like you, I think it would look very nice.
Assuming a screw-in crown for the water resistence
By: ammerix1 : November 1st, 2019-09:37
does it also lock the pushers for date and weekday so that they can not be accidentally changed? This has happened to me on a couple of watches from another brand, now defunct except in name - Maurice Lacroix with their famous retrograde calander - when g...
Good question
By: singingbee : November 9th, 2019-17:48
Based on my recollection I don’t think the pushers are locked when the crown is screwed in.
Thanks for the reply, singingbee
By: ammerix1 : November 14th, 2019-15:36
Assuming that the pushers are equally water resistent to a screw-on crown, if they can not be locked - something unpleasant could happen if activated under water! Still a watch that appeals to me despite it being marketed as a sports watch and made to fit...
