A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte

AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE GUN METAL AND GOLD DOUBLE DIALLED TWO TIME ZONE HALF-HUNTING AND OPEN-FACED WATCH WITH BOX AND CERTIFICATE CIRCA 1904 NO. 47201

• Movement: 1a quality, 20''' cal. 45 gilded ⅔ plate, gold lever and escape wheel, bi-metallic compensation balance, some jewels carried in gold screwed chatons, diamond endstone, swan-neck regulation, signed and numbered A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden, 47201
• Dial: first: open-faced, white enamel, Roman numerals, blued steel hands, outer minute track • second: half-hunting, white enamel, Roman numerals, blued steel hands, outer minute track, sunken subsidiary seconds • each signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte b/ Dresden
• Case: "Lucia" gun metal, the front with open-faced dial, pink gold rim to the blued steel bezel, the back with glazed aperture and pink gold inner rim, inner pink gold bezel surrounding the dial, pink gold bow, hinges, crown and olivette for adjusting time to open-faced dial, slide beneath half-hunting cased dial bezel for adjusting time, case numbered 156, 217227
• Accompaniments: with an A. Lange & Söhne presentation box and a certificate numbered 47201
diameter 55.5mm

Provenance:
Sotheby's Geneva 14 May 1996, lot 360