LANGE 1 in steel from A. Lange & Söhne achieves record price

An extremely rare stainless-steel model of the LANGE 1 from the 1990s was auctioned for $343,750, a more than twentyfold increase in value. On December 10, 2019, one of the few timepieces with the reference 101.026, which has never been offered in the catalogue, changed hands at the Game Changers auction of Phillips in New York. From the mid-1990s, only a few timepieces in this version, with case and buckle made of stainless steel and hands of blued steel were produced. Equipped with the manufacture calibre L901.0, all functions correspond to those of the LANGE 1 in gold, which at the time had a price of about EUR14,600.