Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 211

A. LANGE GOLD POCKET WATCH A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte b. Dresden, No. 65472. Made circa 1918. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box by Spangenberg Y Freccero, Montevideo.

Four-body, solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold spade hands. 18''', Glashütte 3/4-plate, frosted gilt, 17 jewels in screwed gold chatons, diamond end stones, straight-line lever escapement, gold pallet fork and escape wheel, banking with a pin and hole, cut bimetal compensation balance with gold timing screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, the terminal stud adjustable by a screw, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed.