97th Auction
2018/5/12
Lot 50
A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte B/Dresden, Movement No. 25706, Case No. 25706, 51 mm, 112 g, circa 1887
An important Glashuette pocket watch in museum quality, with digital jumping hours and minutes - sold 1887 to Dürrstein & Co., Dresden, for the sum of 400 Marks - manufactured in quality 1A for the Spanish market - with certificate of the watch museum Glashuette
Case: 18k rose gold, lavishly engraved. Dial: silvered. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, 2 barrels, gold screw compensation balance.
Inspired by IWC’s "jump hour" watches using Joseph Pallweber’s patented design, Dürrstein & Co. had their own mechanism for a jumping indication patented (D.R.P. 35996). The difference to Pallweber’s mechanism is the second barrel that supplies the impulse for the discs with the numerals.
Watches of this kind made by Lange & Söhne are very rare; Martin Huber’s book "Die Lange-Liste" - which shows this timepiece on page 126 - lists no more than six such watches that were sold between 1887 and 1888. Our number 25706 is also illustrated and described on page 234 of Reinhard Meis‘ "A. Lange & Söhne".
An important Glashuette pocket watch in museum quality, with digital jumping hours and minutes - sold 1887 to Dürrstein & Co., Dresden, for the sum of 400 Marks - manufactured in quality 1A for the Spanish market - with certificate of the watch museum Glashuette
Case: 18k rose gold, lavishly engraved. Dial: silvered. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, 2 barrels, gold screw compensation balance.
Inspired by IWC’s "jump hour" watches using Joseph Pallweber’s patented design, Dürrstein & Co. had their own mechanism for a jumping indication patented (D.R.P. 35996). The difference to Pallweber’s mechanism is the second barrel that supplies the impulse for the discs with the numerals.
Watches of this kind made by Lange & Söhne are very rare; Martin Huber’s book "Die Lange-Liste" - which shows this timepiece on page 126 - lists no more than six such watches that were sold between 1887 and 1888. Our number 25706 is also illustrated and described on page 234 of Reinhard Meis‘ "A. Lange & Söhne".
Sold
estimated
35.000—60.000 €
Price realized
72.000 €