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Noga Hilton, Geneva, Jun 14, 2003

LOT 256

A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, /Sa., No. 208529, circa 1942. Very fine silver, keyless deck chronometer with 35-hour power reserve indicator and special balance.

CHF 22,000 - 28,000

EUR 14,700 - 19,000 / USD 17,000 - 22,000

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, large anibal-brass Guillaume balance, balance spring with Phillips outer terminal curve, microetric "swan-neck" regulator, patented balance spring stud fastening design, sapphire patented winding indicator mechanism.Signed on the dial, case, and movement.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, 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 o 732162. The demand for these watches was such that the Lange factory had to employ outside watchmakers to finish them. Most 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 and the balance.