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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 31. An extremely rare and highly important, fresh to the market, pink gold, hunting cased, perpetual calendar, minute repeating, grande and petite sonnerie, keyless lever clock watch with moon phases, double chronograph and register, No. 62'508 | Circa 1916. The fifth watch in the series of nine Grande Complications, and the final example made in pink gold.

A. Lange & Söhne

An extremely rare and highly important, fresh to the market, pink gold, hunting cased, perpetual calendar, minute repeating, grande and petite sonnerie, keyless lever clock watch with moon phases, double chronograph and register, No. 62'508 | Circa 1916. The fifth watch in the series of nine Grande Complications, and the final example made in pink gold

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Auction Closed

May 10, 02:36 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,200,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, four subsidiary dials for day, month combined with leap year indication and 30-minute register, date and seconds combined with aperture for moon phases, outer tracks for minutes and chronograph seconds with red Arabic 5-minute markers, gold filigree hour and minute hands, contrasting blued steel and gold split seconds hands with stylised fleur-de-lys terminals, signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte ^I/SA

Movement: 1A quality, damascened German silver ¾ plate, two-train, gold lever and escape wheel, bi-metallic compensation balance, swan-neck regulation, polished steel bridge work for the chronograph visible to the backplate, signed A. Lange & Söhne

Movement number: 62'508

Case: 18k pink gold Louis XV style hunter case, two pushers for chronograph start/stop and split, short slide to band for trip repetition, adjusters below bezel for advancing day and date in tandem or days independently, month and moon phases, slides for strike/silent and grande/petite sonnerie, glazed movement cover, polished gold cuvette, back cover and cuvette numbered 62'508, case front numbered 508, covers and cuvette signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte

Case number: 62'508

Size: 62 mm diameter

Signed: case, dial and movement

Box: yes

Papers: yes

Accessories: original A. Lange & Söhne Certificate of Origin, Extract from the Archives to come, descriptive paper of the present clock watch, price list dated 1932, watches catalogue with prices and images dated 1930s, copy of correspondence with Andreas Huber dated 1980, leather pouch and original presentation box

1916: A. Lange & Söhne sold to a private collector

1936: Return to A. Lange & Söhne

1938/9: Sold to a Jeweler in Wiesbaden, Germany

1939: Sold to the consignor's family

Martin Huber, Die Uhren von A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, Sachsen, 1988, p. 182, table 75

Martin Huber, Die Lange Liste, 2000, p. 227, table 82

Reinhard Meis, A. Lange & Söhne the Watchmakers of Dresden, vol II, 2012, p. 297