66,000 CHF
Early Dual-Time-Zone – 1st Quality Lever Chronometer A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i/Sachsen, No. 15083. Entered in the sales register in March 1882, sold to C.E. Wolf & Co., Reichsstrasse, Dresden, for 557 Marks. Very fine, important and innovative, probably unique, 1st Quality, independently adjustable early dual time zone with four hands from the center, 18K pink gold, hunting-cased pocket lever chronometer with unusual micrometer index adjustment and Lange’s patented system for the removal of the mainspring barrel. Accompanied by the A. Lange & Sohne certificate. Four-body, “bassine et filets”, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands for the first time zone and blued steel spade hands for the second. Lange calibre, 20’’’, 1st quality, frosted gilt, three-quarter plate, jeweled to the third wheel, six in gold screwed chatons, winding with Lange’s patented system for the removal of the mainspring barrel, straight-line lever escapement with gold pallet fork and gold escape wheel, 16.9 mm Lange cut bimetallic balance with gold screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, diamond endstone, unusual rack and pinion micrometer regulator index, unusual hand setting mechanism with lever in the bezel for the first time-zone, the second time zone hands set from the back. Dial, movement and case numbered. Diam. 54 mm. Notes This hitherto unrecorded watch is an important addition to Lange’s know
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
