Is my Tangente with an ostrich leather strap that came in a small blue cardboard box a fake?
You can rest assured, it is not. On long-haul Lufthansa flights, the Tangente is offered for sale on board. There was, however, the necessity to change a few details according to Lufthansa’s specifications: on board, the watch comes in a blue cardboard box instead of the beautiful wood case because our wood packaging was unsuitable for cargo purposes. The strap made of Shell Cordovan was exchanged for an ostrich skin leather strap as the oils in the horse leather will weep when undergoing great temperature changes – the like you encounter in an airplane’s cargo space – and subsequently bear ugly white marks. These can be easily wiped off with a soft cloth, but of course, it put Lufthansa customers off. They naturally wanted a spotless strap. As in our current collection, the Lufthansa Tangente also comes with spring bars instead of screw-mounted bars facilitating a hassle-free change of strap worldwide, as the tools required to change our former strap were available to German watchmake
