Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 10, 2010

LOT 216

A. Lange & Söhne Platinum Double Split Flyback A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. SA., "Double Split Flyback," No. 55037, case No. 163891, Ref. 404.035. Made in 2007, sold October 18th, 2008. Production of this reference started in 2005. Very fine, rare and important, platinum wristwatch with square button split-seconds and split-minutes fly-back chronograph, register, tachometer, power-reserve indication and an A. Lange & Söhne platinum deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate and manual.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Black, made from solid silver, applied radial white gold Roman numerals, baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary guilloche silver dials for the seconds and double 30-minute register, outer tachometer graduation, up-and-down indication below 12. Luminous white gold alpha hands. M. Cal. L 001.1, Glashütte 3/4 plate in German silver, fausses cotes decoration, 40 jewels including 4 in screw-mounted gold chatons, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance with eccentric poising weights, adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator, hand-engraved balance bridge, push button on the band at 10 to activate split function, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 16 mm.