Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Nov 25, 2006

LOT 121

Yellow Gold ?Lange 1 Moonphase? A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i. Sa., "Lange 1 Moonphase", No. 37556, case No. 147511, Ref. 109.021. Made in the early 2000s. Very fine, astronomic, water-resistant 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with off-center hour dial, oversized date, power-reserve, continuously driven and real motion moon phase, age of the moon and a platinum A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, curved straight lugs, push button for the date correction, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Solid silver, off-center hours and minutes dial with applied yellow gold radial Roman numerals and indexes at 9 o`clock, subsidiary seconds dial at 5 o`clock, power reserve sector at 3 o`clock, apertures for the oversized date at 1 o`clock and the moon phases with the age of the moon at 5 o`clock. Luminous yellow gold "alpha" hands. M. Cal. L 901.5, Glashütte 3/4 plate, maillechort, "fausses côtes" decoration, 54 jewels, including 9 in screw-mounted gold chatons, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, hand-engraved balance bridge. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 10 mm.