Looking to learn more from Lange scholars... I was perusing eBay the other day and came across this first generation 1815 U/D (221.021). It has a Certificate of Origin from Lange so I will assume that is in fact genuine. One thing that caught my eye was t...
but something looks wrong on this dial: why is there a small line above the 7? Also the power reserve sub dial doesn’t look authentic to me… But I could be wrong of course. Best, Emmanuel
I note from the listing that the movement no. is 49xx - so, if genuine, it's a very early piece, most-likely from the first year of this model. Lange's dials of that era were not as uniform or crispy machined as the ones today - and this one certainly has...
I'm not in the market for one (already got mine back in 2018) but was just curious if this was an "official" change from Lange. Consensus seems like it's a poorly done redial. Stay vigilant out there is the lesson, it seems!
... having caseback # 114881 and movement # 4873. The dial on that watch looks as expected, vs. this watch (which has caseback #114876 and movement # 4932), which does not look as expected. My speculation is that the original dial on this watch may have b...