80,500 CHF
A. LANGE & SÖHNE – MINUTE REPEATER WITH LANGE DOUBLE CHRONOGRAPH SYSTEM– ONE OF THREE MADE. A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden, No. 16977. Made in 1884, sold on September 30, 1884 for 1,750 Marks. Exceptionally rare, one of three examples made, large and heavy, 18K red gold, minute-repeating, keyless, hunting-cased pocket watch with 1st Quality movement with precision balance, Lange double-chronograph system with single push-piece for all four functions via one column wheel and split-seconds calipers on the dial side. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Four-body, stepped Louis XV, massive, solid, polished, chronograph button at 12 governing all four functions. Hinged gold cuvette and glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions concentric with fi fths of a second chronograph divisions, outermost Arabic fi ve-second numerals, subsidiary seconds. Louis XV gold hour and minute hands, blued steel chronograph hands. 19’’’, German silver, 1st Quality, 25 jewels in screwed gold chatons, straight-line lever escapement with gold fork and escape wheel, Lange precision 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, index regulator, visible mechanism for the four-function chronograph, the split-seconds calipers on the dial side, repeating on gongs activated
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-11-13
