A. Lange & Sohne Datograph Perpetual Grey Dial Watch

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed)
May 20th 2009 at 12:02PM

Covering all these new trendy gray watches has allowed me to realize one thing, no one can agree on how to spell the word "gray" ("grey?"). I am beginning to have no idea myself on what it correct. So I will just mix up the spelling a bit. It seems that all the nice brands have a gray toned watch this season, and German A. Lange & Sohne has announced their own - this time it is the beautiful Datograph Perpetual Calendar watch in white gold with, yes, a gray dial. The classy Datograph watch feels right in a sober feeling tone, which goes nicely with the blue trim on the moon phase and some of the hands. The main functional appeal of this white gold cased watch is the 30 minute flyback chronograph and perpetual calendar with moon phase and big-date display. The dial also features a small but useful day/night indicator.

The extremely complex L952.1 mechanical hand-made, manually-wound movement consists of 556 parts with the perpetual calendar that will not need an adjustment until the year 2100, and then again 122 years after that. The case is 41mm wide, while the dial in silver done is done with the gray tone. Everything about A. Lange & Sohne watches sing quality and refinement - not necessarily flamboyance and decadence as is the case with some other expensive watches. While not a limited edition, I expect the Datograph Perpetual Grey watch to still be quite rare - certainly a collector's piece if there was one.

Ariel Adams publishes the popular watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Jaye May 20th 2009 9:35PM

Both spellings - "grey" and gray" - are correct. While both appear to have British origins ("graeg"), "grey" is more common in the UK, Canada, and other parts of the world, while "gray" is the spelling found most often in the US. Interestingly, words that have "grey" as a part the "compound" word, such as "greyhound", do not generally have a version using "gray", e.g., in this case, "grayhound" is not an accepted alternative to "greyhound".