Five point nine millimetres, and nothing missing
By Marco Bellini, Zurich ·
5.9 mm. That is the whole case, gold, crystal front and back, and Lange still found room for a 72-hour reserve in a hand-wound caliber with no complications to hide behind.
Turn it over. The L093.1 is the usual Lange recipe in miniature: German silver three-quarter plate, gold chatons held by blued screws, a hand-engraved balance cock. On a movement this thin the plate carries more of the structure than usual, and they did not thin the finishing along with the metal. The anglage on the plate edges is as clean as on the thicker calibers.
What I would change. 30 m is a dress watch rating, so treat it like one. The 19 mm lug width is a nuisance if you like changing straps, because most of the good ones come in 20. And at 40 mm with almost no height the case looks a little flat and wide from the side. I would have taken 38.
Around 24,000 USD. A Patek Calatrava costs more and shows you less movement. Buy it if you wear a shirt every day and like winding in the morning. Skip it if you want the watch to say something to people across the room. It won't.