Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 15

A. Lange and Sohne, Glashütte b/Dresden., No. 5661 , circa 1940. Fine, two-day marine box chronometer with 56-hour power reserve sector

C. Beach with glazed top, gimbaled brass bowl with screwdown glazed bezel, gimbal ring locked by swiveling arm mounted in the front right corner. D. Silvered, Arabic hour numerals, subsidiary seconds at 6, up-and-down indicator at 12. Gold ?Spade? hands. M. 84 mm, brass full plate, turned pillars secured by screws, ?oeil-de-perdrix? decoration, fusee and chain, Harrisons maintaining power, Earnshaw spring-detent escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with four circular mean time weights and two temperature nuts, free-sprung helical balance spring with outer terminal curves. Dial, case and movement signed and numbered. Dim: height, width and depth: 18 cm.