102,000 CHF
Double Split Flyback A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. SA., "Double Split Flyback", No. 44581, case No. 154555, Ref. 404.035. Made in 2006. 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, instantaneous register, tachometer, power-reserve indication and an A. Lange & Söhne platinum buckle. Accompanied by a certificate and manual. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Black, made from solid silver, applied radial white gold Roman numerals and luminous baton indexes, 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. 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. Notes The A. Lange & Söhne "Double Split” is the world’s first fly-back chronograph wristwatch with split-seconds and split-minutes function: a
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-05-11
