Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 169

LANGE 1 REF. 101.005 PLATINUM A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sa., "Lange 1," case No. 117592, Ref. 101.035. Made in the 2000s. Very fine and rare, platinum wristwatch with off-center hour dial, oversized date, power- reserve indication and a platinum A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, curved straight lugs, pushbutton at 10 for date correction, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Black, solid sterling silver, off-center dial for hours and minutes with applied white gold radial Roman numerals and indexes, subsidiary dial for the seconds, power reserve sector between 2 and 4, double aperture for the oversized date at 1. White gold alpha hands. Cal. L 901.0, Glashütte 3/4 plate in German silver, fausses cotes decoration, 53 jewels, including 9 in screw-mounted gold chatons, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, swan neck regulator, hand-engraved balance bridge, hack mechanism.