Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 762

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.

CHF 3,000 - 5,000

HKD 25,000 - 41,000 / USD 3,200 - 5,400

Sold: CHF 18,750

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.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

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 on the top plate. The balance staff had a diamond endstone. The balance cocks were engraved and the index had micrometer adjustment on a swan-neck spring. Only gold (and sometimes platinum) screws were used on the balance. According to the catalogue, Lange adjusted each movement in five positions.