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Geneva, Nov 11, 2007

LOT 95

Pour le Mérite A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte I. SA., Tourbillon "Pour le Mérite", movement No. 419, case No. 110360, Ref. 701.001. No 110 of a limited edition of 150 examples. Made in 1996. Extremely fine and very rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, 36-hour power reserve and an 18K pink gold A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, curved straight lugs, transparent case back secured by 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Matte black with applied gold lozenge-shaped indexes, subsidiary silvered guilloché dials for the seconds and the power reserve indication, aperture with polished steel bridge for viewing the tourbillon. Pink gold alpha hands. M. Cal. L 902.0, Glashütte 3/4 plate, nickel-silver, movement hand decorated and engraved, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels including 5 in screw-mounted gold chatons, power equalization with chain and fusee, maintaining power and stepped planetary gearing, tourbillon cage bearing 2 diamond endstones, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with equidistant polished steel three-arm carriage, Glucydur balance with screws adjusted to 5 positions, Nivarox balance spring with Strasser overcoil, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 10.5 mm.