A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte

A VERY FINE GOLD HUNTING CASED QUARTER REPEATING KEYLESS LEVER CHRONOGRAPH WATCH WITH REGISTER 1917, NO. 81693

• Movement: 1a quality, cal. 43 gilded ¾ plate, gold lever, bi-metallic compensation balance, 42 jewels, ruby endstone, two polished steel hammers repeating on coiled gongs, polished steel chronograph bridge work mounted to a matt finished steel asymmetrical bridge and all visible to the gilded backplate, signed and numbered A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, Dresden, 81693
• Dial: white enamel dial with sunken centre, Arabic numerals, twin outer tracks for minutes and chronograph seconds with red Arabic numeral 5-minute divisions, two recessed subsidiary dials for constant seconds and 30-minute register, gold Louis XV style hands, signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte I/SA
• Case: "Royal" 18ct gold, plain polished covers, plain polished gold cuvette, setting lever for hand-set beneath bezel below 4 o'clock, front and back covers signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, the covers and cuvette numbered 81693
diameter 58.5mm

Provenance:
Martin Huber, Die Uhren von A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, Sachsen, 1988, p.178, table 48
Martin Huber, Die Lange Liste, 2000, pp. 190-191