Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 179

LANGE REF. 403.031 FLYBACK DATOGRAPH PINK GOLD A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sa., "Datograph Flyback," No. 38213, case No. 152101, Ref. 403.031. Made in 2003, sold April 28th, 2004. Very fine, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button fly-back chronograph, register, tachometer, oversized date and an 18K pink gold A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee and instruction manual.

Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, push button at 10 for the date correction, sapphire crystals. Bicolor black and silver, made from solid sterling silver, applied pink gold radial Roman numerals and faceted indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers and tachometer graduation, at 12 double aperture for the oversized date. Luminous pink gold alpha hands. Cal. L 951.1, Glashütte 3/4 plate, maillechort, fausses cotes decoration, 40 jewels including 4 in screw-mounted gold chatons, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator, hand-engraved balance bridge.