Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 621

A. Lange & Söhne 800 Jahre Dresden Set of 2 Unique Pieces A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sa., ?800 Jahre Dresden?, No. 2/8 SETS, Lange 1 Moonphase and 1815 Chronograph. Made in a limited edition of 8 sets to celebrate the 800 Jahre Dresden in 2006 retailed by The Hour Glass in Japan. Very fine and extremely rare, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatches with 18K pink gold A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, instruction manuals and setting pin. A) Lange 1 Moonphase, No. 51635, case No. 161721, Ref. 109.033 B} 1815 Medical Chronograph, No. 57035, case No. 153553, Ref. 401.032

C. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, on the band engraved No.2/8 SETS, sapphire crystals. D. Silver, made from solid silver with painted black Arabic numerals, subsidiary guilloché dials for the 60-second and instantaneous 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th second/ minute track, outermost pulsometer graduation. Pink gold alpha hands. M. Cal. L 951.0, Glashütte 3/4 plate, maillechort, fausses cotes decoration, 34 jewels including 4 in screw-mounted gold châtons, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, hand-engraved balance bridge. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39.5 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm. Property of a Japanese Collector