18,750 CHF
LANGE & SOHNE 1ST QUALITY QUARTER REPEATER SILVER & GOLD A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte Bei Dresden, No. 28363. Made circa 1890. Very fine and extremely rare, large, quarter-repeating, half- hunting cased keyless silver and gold pocket watch with 1st quality movement. Four-body, bassine, polished, the front cover with gold- rimmed glazed aperture and royal blue champlevé enamel Arabic numerals, gold hinges, crown and repeat-slide. Hinged silver cuvette. White enamel with blue Arabic numerals, outer painted gold dot minute divisions and blue Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold Louis XV hands. 18''', Glashütte 3/4-plate, frosted gilt, 18 jewels, gold chatons with blued steel screws, straight line Glashütte escapement, gold pallet fork and escape wheel, banking with a pin and hole, Lange Guillaume-type balance with gold timing screws, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, the terminal stud adjustable by a screw, diamond endstone, engraved balance cock, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Notes Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 55.5 mm. ALS-quality pocket watches signed: "A. Lange & Söhne, Glashutte b. Dresden". ALS (A. Lange & Söhne) always denoted watches of first quality, whether under the "A. Lange, Dresden" signature or the later "A. Lange & Söhne, Glashutte-Sa". Their movements had 16-20 jewels. Four jewels and the pallet-staff bearing were set in screw-held gold "chatons" and visible
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09
