260.025
- Model
- RICHARD LANGE “Pour le Mérite”
- Case material
- 950 platinum
- Case size
- 40.5mm
- Movement
- Manual
- Calibre
- L044.1
- Market value band
- $150k – $600k
A fusée-and-chain transmission in a wristwatch. A chain of more than six hundred parts links the barrel to a cone-shaped fusée, and as the mainspring weakens the chain works along the cone's widening radius, so torque at the escapement stays constant. It is an eighteenth-century marine chronometer solution shrunk to the wrist. "Pour le Mérite" is reserved for Lange references carrying it.
- The chain is assembled by hand from over six hundred individual parts and is roughly as thick as a human hair.
- The fusée-and-chain is what the "Pour le Mérite" designation records at Lange; it is not a decorative suffix.
Before you ask.
What movement does the A. Lange & Söhne 260.025 use?
The A. Lange & Söhne 260.025 runs the L044.1, a manual movement.
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