90th Auction

2014/11/15

Lot 39

A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte B/Dresden, Movement No. 18561, Case No. 18561, Cal. 43, 56 mm, 154 g, circa 1885
A very fine, rare Glashuette hunting case minute repeating pocket watch sold on 09/07/1885 to Dürrstein & Co., Dresden for 1120 Marks - manufactured in quality 1A - with Lange extract from the archives
Case: 18k pink gold, tiered, polished, case design "Louis XV à goutte", gold dome, glazed movement, large lateral hinge. Dial: enamel, Arabic hours, auxiliary seconds, red minutes and seconds, gold Louis XV hands. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, frosted, gilt, screwed gold chatons, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, gold screw compensation balance, florally hand-engraved balance cock, gold lever and escape wheel, chatoned diamond endstone on balance.
Lit.: "Die Lange-Liste" by Martin Huber, Munich 2000, page 197.

Sold

estimated
26.00032.000 €
Price realized
21.000 €