Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 172

LANGE 1 YELLOW GOLD A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. SA, Lange 1, movement No. 38359, case No. 123327, Ref. 101.022. Made in circa 2002. Very fine, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with off-center hour dial, large date, power-reserve indication and an 18K yellow gold A. Lange & Söhne link bracelet and clasp.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, curved straight lugs, push button at 10 for the date correction, sapphire crystals. Solid silver, off-center hour dial with applied radial Roman numerals and indexes, subsidiary seconds dial at 5, sector for the up-and down indication at 3, oversized aperture for the date at 1. Yellow gold alpha hands. Cal. L 901.0, 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 micrometer regulator, hand-engraved balance bridge.