Important Collectors Watches, Pocket ...

New York, Oct 17, 2008

LOT 305

Datograph A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sa., "Datograph," No. 44429, case No. 157509, Ref. 403.031. Production of the "Datograph" started in 2000. Very fine, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button fly-back chronograph, register, tachometer, oversized date and an 18K pink gold A. Lange & Söhne link bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, push button at 10 for the date correction, sapphire crystals. D. Bicolor black and silver, made from solid silver, applied pink gold Roman numerals and faceted indexes, subsidiary silver dials for the seconds and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, below 12 double aperture for the oversized date. Luminous pink gold alpha hands. M. 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 13 mm.