Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 376

Datograph A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sa., "Datograph," No. 42132, case No. 154242, Ref. 403.032. Made circa 2005. 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 a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, push button at 10 for the date correction, sapphire crystals. D. Silver, made from solid silver, applied pink gold Roman numerals and faceted indexes, subsidiary gray 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. Property of an East Coast collector