Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 167

A. Lange & Söhne - Retailed by F. Krussmann & Cia, Rio De Janeiro A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden, No. 27424. Made in 1889. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, keyless, pocket watch with Lange?s patented dead-seconds chronograph.

C. Four-body, solid, polished, hinged bezel and back, engine-turned case back with initials: CSJ, gold hinged cuvette engraved: Ao artista Joao dos Santos Couceiro Reconhecimento da S. Propagadora das Bellas-Artes 30 de Novembro de 1889 Rio-De-Janeiro. D. White enamel with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Gold spade hands. M. 42 mm (19'''), frosted gilt 3/4-plate, 26 jewels, the top ones mostly in screwed gold chatons, straight line Glashütte lever escapement, gold escape wheel and pallet fork, banking by a single pin in a pin hole, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, blued-steel Breguet balance spring, diamond endstone, ?swan-neck? micrometric regulator, Lange?s patented dead seconds mechanism from the same train. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 51 mm. Thickness 17 mm.