At the Concourse of Elegance 2022 – taking place from 2 to 4 September 2022 in the royal ambiance of Hampton Court Palace on the outskirts of London – A. Lange & Söhne will present a one-of-a-kind version of the 1815 Chronograph that will be auctioned on 6 November 2022 at the Geneva Watch Auction XVI by Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo.
The proceeds of this unique timepiece will go to The Prince’s Trust, a charity set up by the Prince of Wales to support young people aged 11 to 30 in developing essential life skills, getting ready for work, and accessing job opportunities.
The 1815 Chronograph “Hampton Court Edition” comes in a solid white-gold case with a diameter of 39.5 mm. The black dial features, for the first time, sandstone-coloured numerals and scales.
The tachometer scale on the peripheral – which enables the calculation of average speeds – emphasizes the historic connection between motorsport and time measurement.
The contrasting rhodié-colored subsidiary dials for the small seconds and the minute counter improve readability, also assured by the rhodium case-matched gold hands for the hours and minutes as well as by the rhodium steel hands for the chrono seconds, the subsidiary seconds, and the minute counter.
Behind the solid-gold hinged cuvette with the hand-engraved logo of the Concours of Elegance ticks a manufactory-designed and -produced chronograph movement with a flyback function and column-wheel control. Beating at a frequency of 18,000 vibrations per hour (2.5 Hz), the watch displays stopped times to an accuracy of one-fifth of a second. The power reserve is 60 hours.
As with every Lange movement, the hand-wound caliber L951.5 is assembled twice and finished at the highest quality standards.
The A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph “Hampton Court Edition” (ref. 414.047) is completed by a black hand-stitched alligator leather strap with a prong buckle in solid white gold.
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