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Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Nov 16, 2002

LOT 442

A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte,No. 60762, sold to Robert Pleissner in Dresden on 27 November 1908.Very fine and rare 18K gold hunting-cased keyless lever chro-nometer 1st quality watch, in original leather fitted Lange box. Accompanied by factory certificate.

CHF 8,000 - 10,000

EUR 5,300 - 6,700

Sold: CHF 8,050

C. Four-body, "Lucia", massive (106.7 gr.), bezels engraved with repeated acanthus leaves, front with engraved monogram, gold hinged cuvette over gold bezel glazed for viewing the movement. D. White enamel, double sunk, Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Gold "Louis XV" hands. M. 45 mm (20'''), 3/4-plate, frosted gilt, 20 jewels, most in gold screwed settings, straight line Glashütte lever escapement, gold escape wheel and pallet fork, banking with single pin in a pin hol, large (19.6 mm.) cut bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring with outer and inner Phillips' terminal curves, diamond endstone, "swan-neck" micrometric regulator.Signed on dial, case and movement, cuvette engraved "Steinkohlenbauverein Gottes Segen zu Lugau, 1885 13/III 1910".Diam. 58 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2 - 01

Notes

An excellent example of Lange's best quality watches. The inscrip-tion on the cuvette suggests that the watch was given as a present to an important official for 25 years of service from a Mining Association in Lugau, an important German mining town.