Lot 71

A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte B/Dresden, Movement No. 27421, Case No. 27421, 52 mm, 118 g, circa 1889
A unique Glashuette pocket watch with chronograph and date - manufactured in quality 1A - sold on 1889/03/29 to Dürrstein & Co in Dresden for 550 Marks - with Lange extract from the archives
Case: 18k pink gold, engraved noble family crest. Dial: enamel. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, gold screw compensation balance.
According to Reinhard Reichel, manager of the foundation Watch and Clock Museum in Glashütte, this watch is a rare collector’s object. It is the only watch made by Lange with this set of functions that was sold as a finished timepiece. Only four watches with this combination of complications with chronograph and date were ever sold; the first three were delivered to the Charles William Schumann company in New York.
Moreover, the watch is in perfect condition. The back is decorated with an elaborately engraved emblem with a coronet of rank used by the lower nobility; the lion holding a carrot also points to landed gentry.

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