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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 605

A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, No. 31842, case designed by Prof. Graff, finished in 1894. Very fine 18K pink gold and enamel hunting cased keyless quarter-repeating watch with chronograph and 30-minute register.

CHF 40,000 - 60,000

EUR 27,000 - 41,000 / USD 24,000 - 36,000

Sold: CHF 135,500

C. Four-body, ?Louis XV?, entirely engraved, front centered with applied initials on well matted ground, border engraved with repeated scallop shells, back with dragons in a champlevé frame of black enamel with gold flowers and seashells, edge of the bezels engraved in repeated pattern, center with small cartouche engraved ?Johannifest 1894?, band engraved in repeated pattern, bow and the pendant engraved, back cover with canted box-hinge, gold hinged cuvette over glazed gold bezel for viewing the movement. D. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, outermost chronograph division with red Arabic minute figures, subsidiary, sunk seconds, sunk center, sunk minute register at 12 o?clock. M. 42.6 mm. (19???), gilded-brass, three-quarter plate, straight-line lever escapement, 24 jewels, Lange?s bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, gold escape wheel and pallet fork, back plate jewels in gold settings, entire escapement with endstones with diamond over the upper balance pivot, Lange patented lever set design, repeating on gongs, slide on the band. Signed on the dial and the movement, back cover stamped inside with Lange?s mark. Diam. 57 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

The decoration of the case was designed by Prof. Carl Ludwig Theodor Graff of the Dresden School of Applied Arts, who became director of the Dresden Art and Industry Museum in 1874. His designs, in the beginning, were to symbolize the prosperity enjoyed by Germany under the rule of Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 to the end of World War I in 1918. Lange?s best quality watches were signed ?A. Lange & Söhne? and incorporate features found and described in the present lot.