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Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Nov 16, 2002

LOT 444

A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, /Sa.,No. 208529, circa 1942.Fine silver, keyless deck military chronometer with 35-hour winding indication and special balance.

CHF 15,000 - 20,000

EUR 10,000 - 13,500

Sold: CHF 4,830

C. Three-body, massive, "Lucia", polished, 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. 48 mm. (21'''), Cal. 48, frosted gilt, three-quarter plate, 17 jewels, most in sapphires, 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 fastenng design, sapphire patented winding indicator mechanism.Signed on the dial, case, and movement.Diam. 60 mm.


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Grading System
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Notes

Caliber 48, designed by Lange for the Wehrmacht, was conceived so as 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.Most of the caliber 48 watches have lateral banking utilizing lateral extension of the pallet fork. This watch has banking in the straight line of the escape wheel - balance.