425.050 A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Rattrapante Honeygold

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(A special note for today’s Find, the actual example being sold at K2 Luxury is pictured last, other photography is of a separate example sold last year by our friends at Perpetual, who captured it perfectly at that time.) Before the Datograph Honey-Lumen or Handwerkskunt, there was this. It doesn’t fall neatly into any normal…

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401.026 First Series A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph

There’s an old German proveb that goes ‘Das billige ist immer das teuerste’, or ‘The cheapest is always most expensive’. Germans invest in quality. You get the sense that a watchmaker on a bench at Lange wouldn’t be able cut a corner if they tried, that in their mind anything less than perfect mirror anglage…

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401.026 First Series A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph

If you’ve ever wondered to yourself just how gorgeous a distilled Datograph could be, this is your answer. Lange broke all standards of watchmaking in 1999 with the aesthetically moving and impressively engineered calibre L951.1 Datograph, entirely manufactured on German soil. In the wake of that momentous release, a subset of collectors clamoured for a…

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401.026 First Series A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph

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If you’ve ever wondered to yourself just how gorgeous a distilled Datograph could be, this is your answer. Lange broke all standards of watchmaking in 1999 with the aesthetically moving and impressively engineered calibre L951.1 Datograph, entirely manufactured on German soil. In the wake of that momentous release, a subset of collectors clamoured for a…

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