A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte

A VERY FINE AND RARE LADY'S PINK GOLD HUNTING CASED MINUTE REPEATING KEYLESS LEVER WATCH CIRCA 1903, NO. 44484

• Movement: 1a quality, 12''' cal. 28 damascened German silver ¾ plate, gold lever and escape wheel, some jewels carried in screwed gold chatons, bi-metallic compensation balance, decoratively engraved balance cock with swan-neck regulation, ruby end-stone, repeating on coiled gongs, signed and numbered A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, no.44484
• Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, sunken centre, black outer minute ring, gold Louis XV style hands, sunken subsidiary seconds, signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte
• Case: "Lucia" polished 18ct pink gold, the cover with monogram, plain polished gold cuvette, lever for hand-set beneath bezel at 4 o'clock, covers and cuvette signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, back cover and cuvette numbered 44484, front numbered 84
diameter 36.5mm

Provenance:
Sotheby's Geneva, 14 May 1991, lot 490