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New York, Oct 17, 2008

LOT 88

Platinum Datograph Perpetual A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i./Sa., "Datograph Perpetual," No. 48278, case No. 158220, Ref. 410.025E. Made in 2006, sold in April 2007. Production of this reference started in 2006. Very fine and rare, large, heavy platinum wristwatch with square button fly-back chronograph, register, tachometer, perpetual calendar, oversized date,moon phases, 24 hour indication and a platinumA. Lange & Söhne deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original box, guarantee certificate and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, pushbutton on the band at 10 for date and day of the week correction, sapphire crystals. D. Solid silver with applied radial white gold Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and instantaneous 30-minute registers, days of the week, the months, the 24 hours with day/night indication, the leap year, outer tachometer graduation, apertures for the doubledigit oversized date and the moon phases. Luminous white gold alpha hands. M. Cal. L952.1, Glashütte 3/4 plate in German silver, fausses cotes decoration, 45 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance with 6 eccentric poising weights, 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. 41 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.