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Aye, so things are getting a bit heated in a couple of other threads - people posting reps on gen forums, and (troll talk?) tales of school trips to the local Rolex dealer. (This internet is a dangerous place - are there now schoolchildren posing as grown-ups to 'groom' us adults?!) Anyway didn't really want to take these threads OT. [On a personal note, my perspective is that it's a bit mean-spirited to do anything that detracts from the pleasure that anyone gets from owning the genuine article - just as surely as I wouldn't appreciate them trying to get up my nose by suggesting I am some kind of lesser human for not owning one.] "WHERE IS THE HUMOUR?" You plead...... Okay, this is the game: "Taking your rep Rolex to fool an expert is a bit like..." ....taking out your fake [censored] and rubbing them in a plastic surgeon's face. You get the idea....

I think we're seeing a lot of demand here for the next step.....modding it! Great ideas: Google earth (tell the time as you zoom into your back yard), global warming-o-meter, snow globe, stars!! But do you think it would be too much to add an orbiting moon?!

Hehe...it would be nice to be able to swap them over on a long haul flight! Although, of course, the true aficionado wears two of these watches at a time - one of top of the wrist, one underneath Looking at the pic, Antartica does seem to dominate southern hemisphere watch; damn geography. On a (silly) medical note - if you pull your jumper down over this watch I think you could pull off a great impression of a ganglion cyst!

Funnily enough it seems they thought of everything... I think the minute hand is that red dot. But even better - the original packaging contains a kit....to turn it into a desk clock! Smart cookies.

That explains it! Thank you! It's actually quite a good way to tell the time around the world - would be better perhaps on a desk though. Mind you, I wouldn't want to boil an egg with this thing! Err, your egg's ready when Afghanistan hits where western Turkmenistan is right now!

Exactly - I'm not sure I would wear it - but I kind of wish someone else at the dinner party (yeah, right - pub) would!

River's Turning Globe Watch Wow - it's certainly a conversation piece! There is, I should add, another WS-1 model with the earth the other way up - for those of us that are that way inclined

Magic - thanks!

Yes! Ex-Scotland too!

Ah, thanks for the kind words. Actually, here's a question for all the folk that are into Lange's. I was looking at Gunnar's link last night and eventually gravitated to the Lange website, and realised that there are no official outlets (meaning nowhere you can buy a gen Lange with a warranty I think) in Australia, New Zealand or Japan. But there is an official outlet in Kazakhstan. What is that all about? I'm delighted for Kazakhstan (really), but does that not strike you all as odd? Being a bit more cheeky, perhaps there is a gap in the market for an official dealer in these countries - for RWG & Co !!

I hear what you're saying. They're not good 'replicas', and they don't look as good as the real thing. On the bright side, the reps that are out there are gorgeous watches in their own right - and for a forty grand price difference I can just about bring myself to forgive the differences I started out looking for genuine watches at the high-end jewellers (not uber-end), you know the sort of range (Omega, Rolex & co), and wasn't really taken with anything. I don't really like 'flash' and prefer leather straps. There was a Longines watch I didn't mind, but you need a bit more enthusiasm to spend a fair bit of money like that. Then I saw my first photo of a Lange (online).... Couldn't afford a real one, obviously, but I'm utterly chuffed to bits with my rep. My point is, I think my rep is better looking than all the gens I saw when I was out shopping. So from that perspective I win. Sadly, I don't see the Lange reps getting better any time soon. Because the movements aren't available like with other brands, they will never pass close inspection. And because of this there is no demand for them at the high-end of the rep market, and without the demand I don't think you get the effort being made to improve them in other areas, if you know what I mean. But bottom line - beautiful watches.

Magic link - thank you. Off to read about it now.

Lovely watch. Reminds me a bit of a Lange rep not a million miles away from my wrist right now Do you know what year this model came out?

A nippy car isn't just good for parking - good for gaps in traffic too! Nice looking car - we don't get the Scion marque in our part of the world - it's a Toyota, right? I think I've seen the box one in Tokyo (but as a Toyota).

I was only kidding around but come to think of it I really do have one car per watch!! I have one car.....lol! (And my trusty rep)! Sad, I should shop more often.

A car for every watch!

That sounds about right! We have a 'Folksvagen' - recently we had to replace a water pump because it wasn't broken. That's right, it was working perfectly. Apparently the fact that it hadn't broken was suspicious, since they always break. And when they do, you're stuck. What do you do? Sigh. This is a problem because we cancelled our roadside assistance, on account of them not knowing anything about fixing cars. An electrical sensor went once, leaving us stranded. A guy came out, crawled under the back of the car with a hammer and started hitting the bottom of the car. I'm outside saying "mate, the engine is the bit at the front." So after wasting a couple of hours he calls for a tow, which - thanks to the wonders of the mobile phone - we could easily have done ourselves. Despite all this - we love the car. But does it love us?!

This is my other, other "baby", from vajrasattva's link.....(!) Lange Datograph 1 Lange Datograph 2 Lange Datograph 3

Very interesting. Thank you!

...or maybe daub our usernames in the 'Reading this topic' bit at the bottom of the screen with a Casio watch until we make our first post!

Hi Stevie (too informal? Mr Meatballs?!) You inspired me to "come in from the cold" too. Been reading the old RWG since I was looking for a rep when I was overseas last year. Only found my old bookmarks recently, looked up RWG I and found the links (Kenberg's hard work?!) to the new home - sans madness! Maybe we should have a secret lurker sub-forum?! Anyway - look forward to hearing your experiences with your new PAM. Cheers!