In other words, as has always been true in high-end watchmaking, how you do what you do, is at least as important as what you do, and an annual calendar, like any other complication, is as elevated (or not) as the maker chooses to make it. Lange makes a pretty elevated annual calendar. Aesthetically this is a departure from the more austere look and feel of the existing Saxonia annuals, which are available in rose gold, white gold, or platinum, but all with a silver dial (hands vary as well, with the white gold version featuring very fetching blued steel hands).