Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 311

LANGE & SÖHNE REF. 127-560A-1, B-UHR WORLD WAR II GERMAN AIR FORCE (LUFTWAFFE) Lange & Söhne, Assembled by Naeher & Schaetzle, Pforzheim, Germany, No. 211631, Instrument No. 127-560A-1. Made in 1941. Very fine and very rare, oversized, center seconds, anticorrosion matte nickel military pilot?s wristwatch with indirect center seconds and the original aviator?s very long leather strap. Accompanied by the Certificate of Origin and documents.

C. Three-body, matte gray, inclined bezel, concave lugs, large winding crown, snap-on case back, band engraved ?FL 23883,? back engraved with movement number 211631. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer minute/seconds division. Luminous blued steel lozenge hands. M. Cal. 48.1, 2/3 plate, gilt brass, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator. Case and movement signed. Diam. 55 mm. Thickness 19 mm.