Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 178

LANGE & SOHNE, PINK GOLD LANGE 1A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sa., movement No. 7513, case No. 117882, Ref. 101.031. Sold on October 10, 1998. Fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with black off-center hour dial, oversized date, power-reserve indication and an 18K pink gold Lange buckle. Accompanied by a Lange box and guarantee.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, curved straight lugs, push-button on the band for date correction, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Matte black, off-center dial for hours and minutes with applied pink gold radial Roman numerals and indexes, subsidiary seconds dial, power-reserve sector, aperture for the double-digit oversized date. Pink gold alpha hands. M. Cal. L 901.0, Glashütte 3/4 plate in German silver, fausses cotes decoration, 53 jewels, including 9 in screw-mounted gold chatons, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator, hand-engraved balance bridge, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38.5 mm. Thickness 10 mm.