Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 174

LANGE 1 REF. 109.032 MOONPHASE PINK GOLD A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sa., "Lange 1 Mondphase," No. 38919, case No. 149120, Ref. 109.032. Made in 2004, sold October 19th, 2006. Production of this reference started in 2002. Very fine, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with off-center hour dial, oversized date, power-reserve indication, moon phase and an 18K pink gold A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee, instruction booklet and setting pin.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, curved straight lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, pushbutton at 10 for date correction, sapphire crystals. Solid silver, off-center dial for hours and minutes with applied pink gold radial Roman numerals and indexes, subsidiary seconds dial and age of the moon scale, power-reserve sector, apertures for the oversized date and moon phases. Luminous pink gold alpha hands. Cal. L 901.5, Glashütte 3/4 plate in German silver, fausses cotes decoration, 54 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.