I went to the Lange boutique with the intention of buying the Datograph after spending much time hunting and researching for it, ready to part my cash. I finally played with it, the size, weight, finishing of the platinum and of course the lovely movment are all too perfect on my wrist. However when I was hand winding it, the feel is gone! There's no feeling, it's dead silient abeit smooth, there's no 'tickingly' sweet sound and sensation like hand winding the RL (yes I played with this too yesterday) and I know it'd be mad to compare experience with my humble omega speedmaster, but somehow it's totallly unlike what my speedy can offer! Am I mad? or did I have the entirely wrong impression/expectations of Datograph (in that matter, all hand wind watches) to have a feel like winding an automatic watch? The feel I got is comparable to winding my jaeger world geographic, and some of the automatic watches. Please correct/enlighten me if I'm wrong? I need to be re-educated again before I can get back to like the Dato. Please help.
