Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Oct 08, 2016

LOT 55

LANGE 1 REF. 101.022 DOUBLE BARREL PINK GOLD A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. SA, Lange 1, No. 25875, case No. 140454, Ref. 101.022. Made in circa 2004. Very fine, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with off-center hour dial, large date, power-reserve indication and an 18K pink gold A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and instruction booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, curved straight lugs, push button on the band for the date correction, sapphire crystals. Solid silver, off-center hour dial with applied radial pink gold 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. Pink 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.