Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 171

LANGE REF. 115.046 LUMINOUS GRAND LANGE 1 WHITE GOLD A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sa., "Luminous Grand Lange 1," No. 55803, case No. 167731, Ref. 115.029. Made circa 2006. Very fine, large, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with off-center hour dial, oversized date, power-reserve indication and an 18K white gold A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate of sale.

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 printed luminous radial Roman numerals and indexes, subsidiary seconds dial, power reserve sector at 3, aperture for the oversized date. Luminous white gold alpha hands. Cal. L 901.2, 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 micrometer regulator, hand-engraved balance bridge.