71,300 HKD
A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, No. 92053, circa 1928.Extremely rare and very fine two-tone 18K gold keyless Art Deco dress pocket watch. Three-piece, yellow gold back and florally engraved band, white gold bezels engraved with laurel leaf pattern, yellow gold pendant with geometrical white gold bow. silvered, applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, outer champlevé minute ring, subsidiary sunk seconds. Gold Breguet hands. 38 mm., nickel, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 19 jewels, top ones in gold settings, 8 adjustments, straight line lever escapement, cut Guillaume type anibal-brass compensation balance, special alloy Breguet blance spring, micrometric "swan-neck" regulator.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 45 mm. Notes It is very rare to find such an elegant Lange Söhne watch with two-tone case. The case was especially ordered from Vuillomet & Cie, and the watch was possibly destined for an international exhibition, particularly in view of the fact that the movement is engraved "Germany", an engraving almost never found in Lange's watches.For a note on the Anibal (acier au nickel pour balanciers), see lot 271.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-06-08
