BluNotte
9069
Platinum, smooth as butter
Guten abend my fellow Lange friends!
Trust you all are having a great TUesday! I know i did!
So, to bring things up to speed, today i brought my watch to my AD, and we discussed about what could be done regarding the ridiculous scratches that Lange caused to my dearest King watch.
Many of you might remember that I talked about my most favourite guy at my store, Mr. Kosugi, the man who does it all for me, and often times even go beyond his way just to satisfy me. Mr. Kosugi, by the way, is also a master expert at metallurgy, because that was what he studied in college. One benefit of this is that he is extremely capable of doing minor and even to a certain degree major "repairs" of metal finishing.
As such, finding that i can NOT live one day longer with those damn scratches, and plus i'v entrusted to him my watches before in the past, got him to do it away with those scratches.
And after 5 hours of working, ( with me watching him all the time, which i have to tell you knowing me could give any other person great nervousness, but not Mr. Kosugi, who is the utmost best in what he does, and i call him the world's only "Platinum salesman" by the way), he returned to me a so very much more PERFECT Richard Lange Pour le Merite! I inspected it with my 10x and 30x loupe. Passed with flying colours.
So to celebrate the occasion, not only did i have a damn good 1kg Yonezawa steak ( a breed of wagyu), and some great desserts, i'v taken these extra large photos just for you fellows.
By the way, the issue with me and Lange's brand CEO here hasnt been resolved yet, BUT at least i get a hell fine watch.
Loving it and will be wearing it hell alot now.
Tschuss from a very happy and Platinum feeling BluNotte,
Stephen
Pure, Perfect, Hergestellt in Deutschland
Can you see Mr. Chainey?!
That "B" stands for Butter like Platinum.... Hahaha
The necessary hallmarks to confirm that this is crafted from an element that is 95% pure that exists only 5.×10-7% in the UNIVERSE.
Look at that Blue, look at that Platinum stitching
This message has been edited by BluNotte on 2009-12-01 06:04:18
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Platinum, smooth as butter
Guten abend my fellow Lange friends! Trust you all are having a great TUesday! I know i did! So, to bring things up to speed, today i brought my watch to my AD, and we discussed about what could be done regarding the ridiculous scratches that Lange caused...
Congrats Stephen!
Nice to see you got your baby fixed well and avoid a trip back to Germany! No pics of the steak? Selamat malam ya!
Terimah kashi kawan!
Iyah, gw nga ambil camera ker makan sih! Tapi all is well! Makashi yah! Stephen
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... how did u scratch it in the 1st place? I thought platinum was very hard to scratch Anyway, what matters, is that u can sleep good at night Btw, amaaaazing watch Wear it in good health Karim
Karim my friend!
You have NOT been reading my previous post! The scratches got there because of Lange's fault! Btw, Platinum is NOT that difficult to scratch, afterall it ranks but just 4~4.5 on the Moh's scale! Yes, you are correct because tonight i WILL sleep that much ...
the greatest news ever!
... or extremely close to it. I wildly rejoice with you - and for the success of Mr. Kosugi! Was that on the table what "we" used to call Kobe beef? And you can put away a full kilo away the table? Forget the deserts! Do you enjoy the sushi? HA. ----- now...
Indeed very close to perfection mein Freund!
Right now with the naked eye and even if you play around with the angles of light, the surface is smooth, so smooth that i'd wish it was butter i could spread of top of my bread, or maybe let melt over my steak! I am not that into music, but i know you ar...
Congrats, but...
...I always say macro lenses should be banned from the face of the Earth... ;-) Enjoy that beauty!
ROFL!
I used to say the same too! But i'm not that good with my photography skills, so hopefully i wasn't giving too much a temptation! Gracias! Stephen
Fantastic news
Stephen, I m glad to hear that you found a solution. I m sure you now will be able to fully enjoy your watch. Don t let it be spoiled by others! br, Dirk
Oh yea!
I will wear it with pleasure now over the Christmas season! I love this piece! Cheers and have a good mid-week Dirk! Stephen
I'm very happy for u :-)....
I know exactly how you feel after having a perfect watch. I like Lange mainly because of Alkis..........and hopefully Lange knows how to treasure him. Cheers, CL
Thank you CL!
Yea i was telling Kosugi san of how he is like Alkis in NYC, he doesnt know about Alkis, but i keep on telling him he is one! Cheers Stephen
Well, I don't understand you.
First of all, it is a very well known fact that Platinum is a hard material to polish but you easiliy get scratches with it. So if you don't like scratches, don't buy a platinum watch. Moreover, it is better in a long-time run not to work on the case ever...
Stephen I am glad that you managed to resolve your issues.
It would of needle me, if I had not been the one who had caused them.
Rity oh Topcat
I decided that i could not live with it one day more. SO now it's cleared! Let's hope Lange does not do it again to me in the future. Cheers Stephen
I do my best to understand
--- my dear foversta - and must and am happy to admit that you are absolutely right! I have several platinum watches, including F.P. Journes, that have developed hair-line scratches, if anyone is interested, and do they irritate me - or infuriate me? Do I...
These threads are too long????????
Sorry for possibly sounding a bit rude here but I honestly am not How can this thread being too long , emotional maybe but well valid as you had mentioned. Stephen updates us his PLM's dal has an issue, sent it back for servicing. Then tell us the watch i...
Only Ironic :)
Hey CL - and Stephen!!! My minimalitic micro-irony stumpled or shot itself on its own sweet, sweaty foot. In fact I am in complete and absolute agreement with you both ! Somebody shoving a watch - particularly This Watch - around a hard table-top or in th...
oic , got it :-)
Thanks for clarification One thing that confuses me a bit . Both you and Xavier mention about the interesting characteristic of Platinum case being scratched easily..... I have always had the impression that Platinum is more resistant to scratches than go...
I just dont know!
Maybe falling into bed with a handful of salted peanuts will to the trick but I have never experienced real scratches even after doing that.. Many white gold cases, and the same goes for platinum, have a rhodium coating that is especially scratch-resisten...
my logic is too simplistic......
I thought platinum being harder than gold so it can resist scratches better....and of course it will be harder to be polished too. Same for Stainless steel, it being harder than gold also resist scratches better. When we do a special coating on Stainless ...
From what i know about Pt
Despite all my reading and researching, it seems like Platinum DOES scratch even easier than WG. WG has a rhodium coating, Pt does not because it does not need it. Pt is already renown for it's natural whiteness, which is one of the factors that the Ladie...
I have both gold and pt watches
and I must say pt scratches very easily.white gold for example gets hairlines in a more consinsest way ,a bit like steel.Pt gave me too the impression of a hard surface to scratch ,but was wrong.Anyway I suppose its impossible to mantain a "perfect"watch ...
Hey Mo...
Well i don't know how to put it except that I wear them "damn carefully"! Of course scratches do appear on my watches as well, referring to the platinum ones too, but they are at a bare minimal, and sometimes when i see photo's of other's Pt watches im da...
High five CL!
As i would mention, having friends like you and Amery is one of the main reasons I live here on the PuristS! I don't ever mind the threads getting long and emotional, as long as people respect one another and we are all sharing our most favourite and comm...
Let's all be emotional mein Freund!
Whether in irony or not! Emotions are a give blessed upon us by God! Embrace it! Stephen
Xavier...I think you have to reread Stephen's earlier post.
It is Lange who scratches his watch, not Stephen himself and the CEO of Lange Japan has been very rude to him. Also, Platinum is not an easy watch to be scratched, gold and titanium are. After buying a dream watch of his ( 6 figure sum), to realise that t...
Ok, sorry for my bad input.
My words were too rude. I don't edit my message because your replies will become understandable. But there is one point in which I will never change my mind: we have to adapt our purchases to our own behaviours. I mean if I know that I can't stand a singl...
Thanks Xavier for understanding :-)
I have limited experience on platinum case , maybe 4 or 5 of them but in my recollection, they really resist scratches alot better than the gold cases. It tends to get beautiful swirls over time but not ugly scratches. And yes I agree with you that if one...
My behaviour is that if i had my way of wearing
which i do my watches HARDLY get any scratches. Me and my family are reputed to take very good cares of our belongings. My mom's kitchen for 18 years was so clean and in such good condition that when we wanted to rent out our place and the agent came for ...
No worries Xavier,
I'v read your post later. Lol hope you understand now that the scratces weren't caused by me, thats why i couldn't live with it. Of course i know the "troubles" of a Platinum watch, my collection is mainly platinum timepieces, And i don't work on it every...
Happy for you Stephen
I didn;t catch your previous thread on what happened but regardless, you are a happy camper with this fantastic piece. I hope to be able to afford a fusee chain movement someday... and hopefully in comes complete in a working time piece
Yo Mech!
Thanks thanks! Yes i am enjoying this beauty right now! Very nice, very good! Toast to your chain fusee movement one day then! Prost! Stephen
Congrat....
Well, at least you have a perfect watch once again in no time. I'm happy for you, and thump up to your AD gentleman. I will be in Tokyo-Osaka later this month. Will let you know more detial later Cheers!
The Sisyph's Myth
Scratches are unavoidable, on a platinum watch. So, you'd better get used to them, my friend, and live with them till you send your watch for a complete service... If not, the Sisyph's Myth will turn into Tantalum's Torture... Best, Nicolas This message h...
Mon ami, i know....
And i would not make a fuss out of it if it was created by me! But this was NOT the case! Lange created that scratch on my precious beauty when i sent it in for repair! Wouldn't you agree that the watch should come back to me as perfect, and not worst tha...
Stephen I couldn't happier for you!!!
Sorry mate I'm late to the party but as soon I saw the thread, I had a feeling in me that it's good news!! That is excellent excellent news!! You deserve the perfect watch and I'm glad that you have managed to get it polished up by an expert in metallurgy...
Hey there ma mate from down under!
Thank you! Yes indeed, the feeling in me is euphoria, and it's so damn good to look at pure, gleeming Platinum! I'm a huge eater mate, i could eat up to 2kg of meat, especially if they are in the form of either beef or lamb, ( oh i miss Oz lamb from my da...
Good to hear
that your PLM now back to your expectation, thanks everyone thought on the topic that platinum can be scratch too. Now, am curious where does 1kg beef goes as you still look skinny...LOL take care
It is great......
that you are now happy with your watch.... however it seems that there are some scratches on the buckle and the back of the case, especially next to the 950 and one of the screws.... I hope that it is just dust..... As far as the CEO I advise you to confr...
Thanks for pointing them out!
Regarding the scratches on the buckle, i know about them and this happens to all my Pt watches because i use platinum stitchings in the straps of all of them, thus the stitching scraps against each other and causes that. I wouldn't worry about that. Regar...
I do not think it is appropriate to talk about my happenings with him here
Hope you understand. Cheers Stephen
Stephen, congrate on your repaired platinum baby.
It is extremely not easy to find someone who is capable of polishing platinum "perfectly". So far, this is what had been told to me. Many will complain that "it is very hard and it is not possible for me to do a 100% job". None will say that "I am not ski...