patrick_y
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Focus on comfort and weight...
Having worn a white gold Striking Time, I realized the watch was too big and the strap was too small. Thus applying too much watch on a small surface area. Imagine a big heavy 7 seater SUV with tiny brake discs. It's just not comfortable. Wore it for two hours in the house and never wore it again afterwards. The watch is nearly Panerai sized, but unlike a Panerai, the strap is fairly narrow; Panerai has wide straps to evenly distribute the weight of the watch. BUT SUCH A COOL WATCH. I'd definitely go for a striking watch if you found the watch comfortable.
I've also worn a friend's Handwerkunst Platinum Zeitwerk. Terribly nervous and stressed, running around a warm summer city, and in short sleeves, I realized how heavy this watch is. I thus realized maybe the gold versions might be better since they're slightly lighter. You have to have the strap rather tight on this watch because it's so heavy that it will otherwise do somersaults on your wrist.
So my ultimate advice to you is to go for something that you find comfortable. Go to your Lange store, and just wear it on your wrist. Get comfortable. Then button up your shirt, tighten your tie, put on your coat to simulate getting warm, is this watch still comfortable when you're warm (your body swells a bit when you're warm). And start with the striking time, that's the best Zeitwerk, if you can be comfortable with it!
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All iterations are beautiful.
I love the grey dial of the zeitwerk date. But you have to have a wrist for it, it is large and thin and can look like a pancake on smaller wrists ... For me the striking versions are a bit gimmicky and don't add much relative to the basic model.
That’s funny - the biggest plus for me is it’s NOT black
Feel the black very harsh and limits the use...
Strange! It doesn't feel warm at all to me ..cold steel gray comes to my mind. In black it may have a diff appeal...
Or Maybe it's just the red highlights cuz I like the APROO grey ceramic and ghost a lot but then they are sporty. VC Cornes de vache -which I admire a lot too - has quite similar color codes with just a bit blue added. So it cud just be a one-off eerie vi...
The grey on the brown/reddish strap feels very different. Plus gives options for black or grey...
I’m a sucker for changing straps over time... to me the black dial is nice but has more of formal look / occasional watch
Can't go wrong with any
I love the black dial striking time. Does not look dated or gimmicky to me. I like how the gongs fill out the empty space that is there on the original. But it is the largest version although doesn't wear as large as dimensions to me. The original is amaz...
Focus on comfort and weight...
Having worn a white gold Striking Time, I realized the watch was too big and the strap was too small. Thus applying too much watch on a small surface area. Imagine a big heavy 7 seater SUV with tiny brake discs. It's just not comfortable. Wore it for two ...
I forgot to mention, this watch is super difficult to wind!
I wanted to use a Striking Time as a daily watch. Boy, that watch is difficult to wind! Short power reserve too! Heavy gauge spring material, very painful to wind, they should include a winding key!
Funny! The Striking Time is one of my favorite watches to wind...
I love the crispness -- the stiffness -- of its winding mechanism. If you turn the crown slowly, you can hear every click distinctly and individually. For me it's a treat because it feels so precise and exacting. But yes, it's a big, heavy watch (especial...
I agree with Patrick above on the Striking Time
But the date version wears much better and ease. Since the caseback is relatively flatter compared to other versions, it distributes the weight quite good. What I heard from several boutiques was that Lange could not supply the Zeitwerk Date for a while d...
I may be in the minority, but I am not a huge fan of the gray dial.
It seems rather dull to me. I had a chance to try it on a year ago. Felt sterile. I like the black striking time if your wrist will accommodate. Full disclosure...I have the black dial Zeitwerk, but it is not swaying my opinion. I was so excited to go try...
If you were on the fence about both watches...
... then I'd opt for the Striking Time because many watches have a date complication but far fewer chime. The date complication is more ordinary, so the Striking Time occupies a more special place in the collecting universe for me. But from your initial p...
