A. LANGE & SÖHNE, GLASHÜTTE | A RARE PINK GOLD QUARTER REPEATING KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH DEAD CENTRE SECONDS, DAY AND DATE INDICATION, STOP/START PUSHER FOR SECONDS THE GOLD CASE LATER PURPOSE BUILT IN THE STYLE OF A. LANGE & SÖHNEMOVEMENT CIRCA 1910 NO.43052, CASE CIRCA 1980

• Movement: 1a quality, cal. 43 gilded ½ plate, gold lever and escape wheel, bi-metallic compensation balance, decoratively engraved balance cock, diamond endstone, precision swan-neck regulation, the dead seconds work mounted and visible to the backplate, some jewels carried in gold screwed chatons, polished steel hammers repeating on coiled gongs, signed and numbered A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i/S, no.43052• Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, gold Louis XV style hands, gold dead centre seconds hand, three sunken subsidiary dials for constant seconds, date and day, signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden• Case: later pink gold, custom made in the style of a Lange & Söhne "Louis XV" case, polished covers with stepped bezels, plain polished gold cuvette, the pusher to the crown activating the start/stop of the centre seconds whilst the cover is open, repeating slide to the band, gold lever for hand-set beneath bezel at 2 o'clock, steel levers for day and date adjustment beneath bezel respectively at 6 o'clock and 4 o'clock• Accessories: A. Lange & Söhne fitted presentation case

Martin Huber, Die Uhren von A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte Sachsen, 1988, p.177, table 44

Movement: running and repeating at time of cataloguing .Winding and handsetting correctly, the day and date also advancing both with the hands passing midnight and via the adjusters. Dial: couple of light scratches but generally in good overall condition Case: polished and with some indentatoins to the covers. Signature stamps appear poorly executed.
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The archives held at the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Glashütte, confirm the date of sale on 17th July 1910 to R. Beyer, Bonn am Rhein, the archives further note that the original case was of "Louis XV" design. The present lot is the second to last in a series of approximately nine examples of quarter repeating watches with dead seconds, day, and date produced between 1881 and 1913.For a similar example, see Meis, Watchmakers of Dresden Vol II, 2012, p. 257, figs 843-844. The gold case is a high quality custom made replacement - its construction has been carefully and expertly devised to incorporate the complex case functions: the pusher within the crown both opens the case as well starting and stopping the centre seconds whilst the cover is open. The case also has to accommodate the repeating slide and three levers which adjust the day and date and allow the adjustment of the hands.