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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 550

A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, i. Sa., No. 200113, circa 1941. Fine silver keyless deck watch with 35-hour winding indication, made for the Kriegsmarine, Service Number M. 4369.

CHF 5,000 - 6,000

EUR 3,400 - 4,100 / USD 3,000 - 3,500

Sold: CHF 6,325

C. Three-body, massive, ?Lucia?, polished, the back engraved with the serial number and the Service Number, hinged silver cuvette. D. Silvered with Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, sunk subsidiary seconds at 3 o?clock, up-and-down scale at 9 o?clock. Blued-steel ?spade? hands. M. 47 mm. (21???), caliber 48, matte gilded, three-quarter plate, 17 jewels, straight-line club-tooth lever escapement with lateral banking extension from the entry pallet, anibal-brass Guillaume balance, Breguet balance spring with Phillips outer terminal curve, micrometric ?swan-neck? regulator, patented balance spring stud fastening design. Signed on the dial, case, and movement. Diam. 59 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Caliber 48, designed by Lange for the Wehrmacht, was designed to have a daily variation rate of less than 1 second. Its winding indicator was invented by Otto Lange and patented in Germany on Sept. 6, 1940, patent No 732162. The Wehrmacht?s demand for these watches was such that the Lange factory had to employ outside watchmakers to finish them, in this case Andreas Huber. For a note on the Guillaume brass balance, see lot 5.