Geneva, Nov 09, 2025

LOT 547

GLASHÜTTE, GERMANY, 1ST QUALITY POCKET WATCH WITH REVOLVING 24 HOUR DIAL PATENT OSBORNE. MOVEMENT SIGNED BY GLASHÜTTER PRÄZISIONSUHR, SILVER

CHF 4,000 - 8,000

HKD 38,900 - 78,000 / USD 5,000 - 10,000 / EUR 4,300 - 8,600 / JPY 760,000 - 1,520,000

Sold: CHF 11,250

A very fine and extremely rare, silver, manual wind open-face, keyless-winding, pocket watch, Silver dial with revolving 24 hour dial patented by Wilhelm Osborne, Dresden, the 20 January 1885, subsidiary seconds at 6, blue steel Breguet hands.


Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Brand Glashütte, Germany

Year Circa 1892

Case No. 2907

Diameter 55 mm.

Caliber 40 mm., Glashütte 3/4-plate, frosted gilt, 18 jewels, gold chatons with blued steel screws, straight line Glashütte escapement, gold pallet fork and escape wheel, banking with a pin and hole, Lange Guillaume-type balance with gold timing screws, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, the terminal stud adjustable by a screw, diamond endstone, engraved balance cock, swan-neck micrometer regulator

Signature Dial, case and movement

Notes

Only an experimental series of 3 pieces by A. Lange & Söhne are known with the case numbers:
25150, 26049 and 26050 made between 1886 to 1887.