760,900 CHF
“Grand & Petite Sonnerie Clockwatch – Minute Repeating” A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, I/SA, B/Dresden, No. 82019. Made circa 1905, sold in 1925 to Otto Pohland, Chemnitz, for 4000 Marks and resold to Adolf Lunser, Berlin, on December 24, 1934, for 2760 Marks. One of only four watches of this type made between 1883 and 1934. Extremely fine and very important, large, 18K gold, hunting-cased two-train clockwatch with grande and petite sonnerie striking and trip minute repeating. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Four-body, heavy, “Louis XV”, polished, the front cover engraved with a coat of arms and an engraved dedication “In Herzlicher Freundschaft zum Weinachtsfest, 1934” on the interior, levers for strike/silent, grande sonnerie and petite sonnerie / petite sonnerie selection in the bezel. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, three-piece, Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Black steel “Spade” hands. 43 mm., 19’’’, 1A (first quality), rhodium plated, “fausses-cotes” decoration, 21 jewels, two trains with tandem winding, the going train with screwed gold chatons, straight line lever escapement with gold escape wheel and pallet fork, Lange cut bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral gold adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, diamond endstone, micrometer adjustment to the regulator, striking and repeating on gongs, the repeating activated by a trip-slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 60 mm. Notes
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-05-14
