$42,000
Datograph A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sa., "Datograph", Flyback, No. 23672, case No. 133742, Ref. 403.035. Production of this reference started in 2000. Very fine and rare, platinum wristwatch with square button flyback chronograph, register, tachometer, oversized date and a platinum A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, push-button on the band for the date correction, sapphire crystals. Black, made from solid silver, applied white gold radial Roman numerals, baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary silver dials for the seconds and instantaneous 30-minute register, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the oversized date. Luminous white gold alpha hands. Cal. L 951.1, 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 adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, hand-engraved balance cock. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Notes Fly-back Fly-back or "Retour en vol" refers to the instantaneous fly-back feature of a chronograph’s sweep second hand. On a regular chronograph, this hand can only be reset to zero, after being stopped by a push of the stop button, but a fly-back mechanism allows resetting the hand to zero, whi
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-18
