Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 353

LANGE & SOHNE LANGE 1 TOURBILLON - PINK GOLD A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sachsen, "Lange 1 Tourbillon", No. 61/250, movement No. 16167, case No. 129061, Ref. 704.032. Made in a limited edition of 250 pieces in 18K pink gold and 150 in platinum, circa 2000. Extremely fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, off-center hour dial, oversized date, power-reserve and an 18K pink gold A. Lange & Söhne deployant buckle. Accompanied by a Lange fitted box and guarantee.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, curved bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, push button at 10 to correct the date, sapphire crystals. Two-tone satiné, solid silver, subsidiary off-center hour dial with applied pink gold radial Roman numerals and dart indexes, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds dial at 9, sector for the up-and-down indication at 3, apertures for the oversized date at 1 and for the tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge. Pink gold alpha hands. Cal. L 9611, Glashütte 3/4 plate, maillechort, fausses cotes decoration, 49 jewels including 8 in screw-mounted gold chatons, 2 diamond endstones in screw-mounted gold chatons, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator, cage with 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, hand-engraved balance bridge.