A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte

A FINE AND UNUSUAL LADY'S PINK GOLD HALF-HUNTING CASED WATCH WITH RIBBED COVERS CIRCA 1882, NO. 15497

• Movement: 1a quality, cal. 32.5 decoratively engraved German silver ⅔ plate, gold lever and escape wheel, bi-metallic compensation balance, decoratively engraved balance cock, diamond endstone, some jewels carried in gold screwed chatons, signed and numbered A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte b Dresden, 15497
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, sunken subsidiary seconds, blued steel hands, signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden
• Case: 18ct pink gold, the covers with scallop-type ribbed decoration, similarly ribbed gold bow, front cover with glazed aperture surrounded by blue enamel Roman numerals and minute ring, back cover centred with a monogrammed cartouche, plain gold cuvette, pusher for hand-set to left of pendant, cuvette and back cover with case maker's mark CWS for Charles William Schumann and numbered 15497
diameter 40.5mm

Provenance:
Antiquorum Geneva, 15 October, 1994, lot 424