Fine Watches Including Masterworks of Time, Collector's Watches

Fine Watches Including Masterworks of Time, Collector's Watches

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Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection

A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte

A rare and fine gold hunting cased keyless lever watch with alarm Circa 1919, no. 62977

Lot Closed

September 16, 04:19 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection

A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte

A rare and fine gold hunting cased keyless lever watch with alarm

Circa 1919, no. 62977


Movement: 1st quality frosted gilded 2/3 plate, gold lever and escape wheel, some jewels carried in screwed gold chatons, bi-metallic compensation balance, diamond endstone, precision swan-neck regulation, alarm sounding on coiled gongs, signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, b/Dresden and numbered 62977

• Dial: white enamel dial with sunken centre, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, blued steel hands, gold alarm indication hand, recessed subsidiary seconds, signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden

• Case: 18ct gold, Swiss plain polished covers and cuvette, winding slide for alarm to the band, two nibs beneath bezel for adjusting hands and central alarm indicator, covers signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, covers and cuvette numbered 62977 and with Swiss and German marks

diameter 54mm

M. Huber, Die Uhren von A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte Sachsen, 1988, p. 169. 

M.Huber, Die Lange Liste, 2000, p.129, table 37

Just seven alarm watches are listed by M. Huber in Die Uhren von A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte Sachsen, 1988 (p.169); these are: 62501, 62502, 62503, 62977, 62978, 80030; Huber also lists a quarter repeating watch with alarm function which is numbered 80029. Number 62978, sequentially that following the present watch, is illustrated and described op. cit. p. 123.