98th Auction

2018/11/10

Lot 2

A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte B/Dresden, Movement No. 31228, Case No. 31228, Cal. 43, 52 mm, 113 g, circa 1893
A very rare Glashuette pocket watch with chronograph without minute hand, sold on March 24th, 1893 to company Robert Pleissner, Dresden for 605 marks - with Lange extract from the archives
Case: 18k pink gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, gold screw compensation balance.
This watch is recorded in "Die Lange-Liste" by Martin Huber, Munich 2000, p. 145.
In the early 1870's Richard Lange (1845-1932) started designing a new chronograph which had the mechanism above the train, so that the mechanism could be attached to a "normal" watch movement. The upper seconds bearing received a new bridge and acted as the bearing for the clutch lever. A central chrono wheel with an upper steel bridge was fed through the minute wheel and all levers and springs were highly ground and bevelled. The mechanism was operated by a pusher in the crown, with the sequence being start, stop and reset. The most basic version only had one chronograph hand, chronographs with minute counters were much more complicated.
Source: Reinhard Meis "A. Lange & Söhne" Edition Callwey, page 242.

Sold

estimated
9.00015.000 €
Price realized
10.000 €