102nd Auction
2020/6/29
Lot 56
A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden, Movement No. 82509, Case No. 82509, Cal. 57, 70 mm, 270 g, circa 1932
The largest ever produced Glashuette deck watch - lever chronometer - with 40h power reserve indicator and Lange extract from the archives, sold on November 6, 1941 to Ernst Mertens company in Cologne for the sum of 525 Marks
Case: silver. Dial: silvered. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, large Guillaume gold screw compensation balance (diameter 21 mm) with 18 gold screws.
This is one of only two deck watches of this size produced by Lange & Söhne and it has a particularly interesting and long history. According to the Lange & Söhne records, the movement (which was originally marked as no. 47663) was handed over to Fridolin Stübner "for safekeeping" in 1906; Stübner most likely used it for adjustment tests. Reinhard Reichel, director of the watch and clock museum in Glashütte writes: "Stübner’s experiments can be identified among other things from the two-part anchor with counterweight and from the unusual number and the arrangement of the disc weights and adjustment weights on the balance wheel." Its history makes this a truly unique movement - while still bearing the no. 47633 underneath the dial, it was fitted in 1932 with a suitable case and received the new number 82509. Eventually - ten years later - this important piece was sold to Cologne.
The largest ever produced Glashuette deck watch - lever chronometer - with 40h power reserve indicator and Lange extract from the archives, sold on November 6, 1941 to Ernst Mertens company in Cologne for the sum of 525 Marks
Case: silver. Dial: silvered. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, large Guillaume gold screw compensation balance (diameter 21 mm) with 18 gold screws.
This is one of only two deck watches of this size produced by Lange & Söhne and it has a particularly interesting and long history. According to the Lange & Söhne records, the movement (which was originally marked as no. 47663) was handed over to Fridolin Stübner "for safekeeping" in 1906; Stübner most likely used it for adjustment tests. Reinhard Reichel, director of the watch and clock museum in Glashütte writes: "Stübner’s experiments can be identified among other things from the two-part anchor with counterweight and from the unusual number and the arrangement of the disc weights and adjustment weights on the balance wheel." Its history makes this a truly unique movement - while still bearing the no. 47633 underneath the dial, it was fitted in 1932 with a suitable case and received the new number 82509. Eventually - ten years later - this important piece was sold to Cologne.
Sold
estimated
25.000—40.000 €
Price realized
27.500 €