32,500 CHF
A. LANGE & SÖHNE LANGE DOUBLE CHRONOGRAPH SYSTEM PINK GOLD A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden, No. 42623. Made in 1905. Extremely rare, large and heavy, 18K pink gold, keyless, hunting-cased pocket watch with 1st Quality movement with Lage's Guillaume-type balance, Lange double-chronograph system with single push-piece for all four functions via one column wheel. Four-body, bassine, massive, solid, polished, chronograph button at 6 governing all four functions. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions concentric with fifths of a second chronograph divisions, outermost red Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Louis XV gold hour and minute hands, blued steel chronograph hands. 19''', matte gilt, 1st Quality, 21 jewels in screwed gold chatons, straight-line lever escapement with gold fork and escape wheel, Lange bimetallic compensation balance cut in the manner of Guillaume, gold temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, foliate engraved cock, diamond endstone, swan-neck micrometer regulator, visible mechanism for the four-function chronograph. Notes Dial, case and cuvette signed, movement numbered. DIAM. 55 mm. Literature: Reinhard Meis, A. LANGE & SÖHNE, The Watchmakers of Dresden, 1997, p.248. The watch with the ascending number 42624 is illustrated and described p. 248, p. 672 - 673. LANGE DOUBLE-CHRONOGRAPH SYSTEM WITH SINGLE PUSH-PIECE LANGE &
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-03-15
