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Geneva, Mar 29, 2009

LOT 53

Grand Lange 1 A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. SA, ?Grand Lange 1?, movement No. 40992, case No. 150957, Ref. 115.031. Made in the 2000s. Very fine, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with off-center hour dial, oversized date, power reserve indication and an 18K pink gold A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with 6 screws, curved straight lugs, push button on the band for the quick date correction, sapphire crystals. D. Solid silver, black with off-center silvered hour dial with applied pink gold radial Roman numerals and dart indexes, subsidiary silvered seconds dial at 5, sector for the up-and-down indication at 3, oversized gold rimmed aperture for the date at 1. Pink gold alpha hands. M. Cal. L 901.2, maillechort, 53 jewels including 9 in screw-mounted gold chatons, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, hand-engraved balance bridge. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 11 mm.