Welcome back to Taking Time. I'm Jonathan, and this is not a Swiss watch brand.
Stick around. I am going to talk about it.
So by now, you're probably watching this, and watches and wonders has already come and passed.
But anyways, we have something that is better than that. This is a watch that was released in 2005.
This is the, now say it with me, A. Lange & Sohne Datograph in not rose gold.
It's not yellow gold. It's honey gold. What do I mean by that? Well, it's the best of
both worlds. It's what I mean. This is not to be confused with the Dufourgraph. It's Dufourgraph.
That's the black dial version of this. That was a limited run. This was temporarily, you know,
in production. It was in production from 2005 to 2012. But yeah, this is the only one that
we've gotten like this ever. So this is the silver dial honey gold Datograph from A. Lange & Sohne.
What that is, is essentially their version of a chronograph with a big date. It's a
really cool watch. It's only 39 millimeters and I think it's like 14 millimeters thick.
And you think that's the standard chronograph kind of thing? No, no, no, no, no. This is different.
Very, very different. This is completely 100% in-house. The original movement came out,
I believe 1999, but this is 100 per percent made by A. Lange & Sohne in-house. Okay. And what I
mean by this is just a technical specticality. Let me show you. So, this is the standard chronograph
big date, which is really cool, because you know, it starts, stops, resets. And then this is
making the date change very easy. So you can press this little pusher over here and it changes the
date very quickly now for the real spectacle, the movement. This is the 951.1 from ALS.
This is what you call a small city. This thing is just absolutely beautiful. It's got
a three-dimensional, you know, look to it. All of the bridges or essentially the parts of the
metal that are silver, not the jewels and not the, you know, actual wheels, not the balance.
But essentially everything that is silver is actually German silver. It's not steel
and it's not gold. It's German silver. Each one of the letterings is actually a hand-laid gold
leaf. So essentially, you know, people are working with microscopes to basically like,
not just write on these bridges, but actually go on top of that and hand-lay gold leaf.
Add to that one artisan per so there's, I think only like three
out of like the entire company, hand draws the Swan-neck regulator where the balance
is the little portion of the watch that has the little wheel that goes back and forth.
It takes approximately 20 years to graduate to be able to even touch one of these movements.
Now another aspect of this is that essentially this entire movement was
based around the placement of the two sub-dials. So you could actually read the time, you know,
while the watch is actually running. So essentially, this is a super complicated watch
for an amazing value that you're not gonna get to get anywhere else on the internet
really other than SwissWatchExpo. We just got this in and I can't put this thing down. So
yeah. You guys need to like subscribe, call me, you know, heck if you call me, I'll give you
my personal number just so we can talk about this watch. But yeah, like subscribe, email,
call me. You know, do all the usual stuff at SwissWatchExpo.com. Yeah, we'll see you next time.