$203,000
"Pour le Mérite" A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte I. SA., Tourbillon "Pour le Mérite", No. 28/50, movement No. 318, Ref. 701.005. Produced in a limited edition of 50 examples in the 1990s. Extremely fine and rare, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with one minute tourbillon regulator, and 36-hour power reserve. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws to view the movement, sapphire crystals. Solid satinésilver with painted Arabic numerals, auxiliary sunk guilloché dials for the seconds and the up-and-down indication, aperture withpolished steel bridge to view the tourbillon. "Alpha" blued steel hands. Cal. L 902.0 - No. 354, Glashütte three-quarter plate, nickel-silver,movement decorated and engraved by hand, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 29 jewels including 5 in screw-mounted gold châtons,tourbillon cage bearing 2 diamond endstones, lateral lever escapement with one minute tourbillon regulator with polished-steel equidis-tantthree-arm carriage, glucydur balance with screws, adjusted to 5 positions, Nivarox balance-spring with overcoil invented by Prof.Strasser, power equalization with chain and fusée, maintaining power and stepped planetary gearing, shock-absorber, self-compen-satingBreguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 10.5 mm. Notes The Tourbillon "Pour le Mérite" Was produced in limited editions of 150 pieces in 18K gold, 50 in platinum and 1 in stainless steel. Out of the 50 platinum examp
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-06-15
