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Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue @ 45th Street, Dec 04, 2002

LOT 177

A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, /Sa., No. 202161, sold to Kriegs-Marine (No. 9690), circa 1940.Very fine, 0.900 silver, keyless deck watch with 35-hour winding indicator and special balance.

USD 3,000 - 4,000

Sold: USD 3,680

C. Three-body, massive, "Lucia", polished, hinged silver cuvette, Kriegs-Marine logo and its number on the back cover. 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, straight-line club-tooth lever escapement with lateral banking extension from the entry pallet, anibal-brass Guillaume balance, Breguet balance spring with Phllips outer terminal curve, micrometric "swan-neck" regulator, patented balance spring stud fastening design, sapphire patented winding indicator mechanism.Dial, case, and movement signed.Diam. 60 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Notes

Caliber 48, created 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 (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 Alpina D.U.G in Berlin. Most of the caliber 48 watches have lateral banking, utilizing the lateral extension of the pallet fork.For a note, seeLot 180.