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LOT 127

Timekeeper with 2 ComplicationsA. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden, No. 31837, sold to Fa. A. Eick & Söhne, Essen, on 24 June 1898, for 693 marks.Fine and extremely rare 18K pink gold, hunting cased self-winding watch with 30-hour power reserve indication.

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C. Four body, massive, "Lucia", polished, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer red Arabic minute ring, sunk subsidiary seconds and up-and-down scale. Gold "Louis XV" hands. M. 18''', first class gilt brass, three-quarter plate, 20 jewels, gold straight line lever escapement, cut steel-brass-nickel balance, Breguet balance spring with "swan-neck" micrometric index. Self-winding mechanism with the platinum weight pivoted on the edge of the back plate and oscillating beteen the plates.Signed on the dial, case and back plate.Diam. 53 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2 - 01

Notes

Adolph Ferdinand Lange (1815-1875)was born in Dresden on February 18, 1815. He received his early training there and was later taught at the Dresden Polytechnic School. He went to Paris and was employed from 1840 to 1845 by the celebrated chronometer maker J. T. Winnerl (1799-1886). Lange introduced the metric system at the outset. He was also mayor of Glashütte from 1855 to 1867 and served as an elected member to the parliament of the kingdom of Saxony.