Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 182

LANGE REF. 410.025 DATOGRAPH PERPETUAL CALENDAR PLATINUM A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sa., "Datograph, Perpetual," No. 48231, case No. 158267, Ref. 410.025. Made circa 2007. Very fine and rare, platinum wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer, perpetual calendar with oversized date, day & night indicator and a platinum A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee, setting pin and instruction manual.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, pushbutton at 10 for the date correction, sapphire crystals. Matte silver, made from solid sterling silver, applied white gold radial Roman numerals, baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute register, the day/night indication, the day of the week, the months and the leap year, outer tachometer graduation and 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, apertures for the oversized date at 12 and the moon phases at 6. Luminous white gold alpha hands. Cal. L 952.1, Glashütte 3/4 plate in German silver, fausses cotes decoration, 45 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, hack mechanism, hand-engraved balance bridge.