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Congratulations!
I heard that they would be delivered pretty quickly! Good for you, wear them well!
Incredibly beautiful watches
I visited the Lange boutique in Vegas a few months ago and they were very kind. I have no direct purchase history with any other boutique, but have bought all of my Langes on the pre-owned market. They still offered me a platinum Zeitwerk without any wait or need to bundle. Not sure if this indicates that business is slowing for them or if they are trying to repair their somewhat fractured image from treating their customers poorly in the recent past. I still love the watches that they produce.
I have the same experience
when I was at the Taipei boutique. first time Lange potential customer and only thing off limit is their honey gold and ss sports collection
Standard-production Zeitwerks (and Datographs, etc.) were never bundled, to the best of my knowledge.
This is true for most standard-production Lange models (but not the Odysseus line and certain other, more complicated pieces). There was some confusion about this in recent years, perhaps because Zeitwerks (and Datographs) were rarely seen in many boutiques. Now we see Zeitwerks more often on display.
I thought for a while you had to buy a smaller piece
Like a Lange 1 before you were allowed to buy a more complicated piece like a Zeitwerk. Maybe those rules were short lived.
I think that was a (totally understandable) widespread misunderstanding/rumor a few years ago.
It was very confusing!
This describes Lange's then-new sales model in 2021, in detail.
Many of us were conflating "pre-sale" pieces like the ZW and Datograph (which never required any prior purchase) with "application" pieces like the steel Odysseus Datomatic (which required a prior purchase).
There were basically 3 categories of watches in that 2021 sales model:
- Regular, stock inventory pieces. These were watches that Lange would provide to ADs/boutiques to keep in inventory for off-the-shelf purchases. They included the standard Lange 1, 1815, Richard Lange, and Saxonia models, etc.
- Pre-Sale Pieces. These were watches that Lange would NOT ordinarily provide to ADs/boutiques to keep in inventory for off-the-shelf purchase. Customers had to order pre-sale pieces, which required no prior purchase. They included the ZW, Datograph, RL Jumping Seconds, WG Odysseus, etc. That was the big change that caused the confusion and rumors. Specifically, people mistakenly thought that just because points of sale would no longer carry these pieces in their inventory, that meant they now required a prior purchase. But that was never true.
- Application Pieces. These were bundled and required prior purchases. They included the steel Odysseus Datomatic and most limited edition Langes.
Since that time, Lange closed all remaining US ADs, and we also now see more of those "pre-sale" pieces (Zeitwerks, etc.) in inventory in boutiques. So I'm not sure that the "Pre-Sale Pieces" concept is still relevant.