105th Auction

2021/11/13

Lot 43

Lange & Söhne
A. Lange & Sons, Glashütte Saxony, Germany

An extremely rare, thin Glashuette platinum pocket watch, so called "openface Cavalier watch", sold in 1936 for the sum of 1350 Reichsmarks - A. Lange & Söhne made only 16 platinum pocket watches in total

Sold

estimated
8.00010.000 €
Price realized
11.300 €
specific features
Case
Platinum, polished, push back.
Dial
Silver, applied Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds, Breguet hands.
Movement
3/4 plate movement, stripe-decorated, screwed gold chatons, gold screw compensation balance, index spring fine adjusting device, platinum escape wheel.
Case no.92048
Cal.39
Diam.49 mm
Circa1936
Ctry.Germany
Wt.85 g


This watch is illustrated and recorded in "Die Lange-Liste" by Martin Huber, Munich 2000, p. 26. Furthermore it is illustrated and described in "Glashütte und seine Uhren" by Kurt Herkner, Dormagen 1978, p. 69.