HANDS ON: A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Up/Down pink gold.
Felix Scholz
A. Lange & Söhne have a great lineup this year, and aside from the stunning Zeitwerk Minute repeater it seems to all be about consolidation, with the Lange 1 getting minor touch ups to prepare it for another 20 years, and the Saxonia range getting a facelift and some size adjustment.
One of the most handsome pieces however was a new version of the 2012 release, the Datograph Up/Down. This year sees the model get a new pink gold case which, combined with a black dial left us all a little short of black.
Sure, it’s not a new model but it’s a stunning, stunning watch.
DATOGRAPH UP/DOWN SPECIFICATIONS:
- Ref. 405.031
- Movement: Lange manufacture calibre L951.6; manually wound, crafted to the most exacting Lange quality standards, decorated and assembled by hand; precision-adjusted in five positions; plates and bridges made of untreated German silver; balance cock engraved by hand
- Oscillator: Shock-resistant balance wheel with eccentric poising weights; balance spring manufactured in-house with a frequency of 18,000 semi-oscillations per hour, precision beat adjustment system with lateral setscrew and whiplash spring
- Power Reserve: 60 hours when fully wound
- Functions: Time indicated in hours, minutes and subsidiary seconds with stop seconds; flyback chronograph with precisely jumping minute counter; power-reserve indicator; outsize date
- Operating Elements: Crown for winding the watch and setting the time, two pushers for operating the chronograph, one rapid- correction pusher for the outsize date
- Case Dimensions: Diameter: 41.0 millimetres; height: 13.1 millimetres
- Movement Dimensions: Diameter: 30.6 millimetres; height: 7.9 millimetres
- Case: Pink gold
- Dial: Solid silver, black; subsidiary dials argenté
- Hands: Pink-gold hour and minute hands, luminous; chronograph hand in gold-plated steel; seconds and minute-counter hands in blued steel
- Crystal: Sapphire crystal (Mohs hardness 9)
- Strap: Hand-stitched alligator leather strap, red brown
- Buckle: Lange prong buckle in pink gold