A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte

A VERY FINE PINK GOLD HUNTING CASED KEYLESS POCKET CHRONOMETER WITH SPRING DETENT ESCAPEMENT CIRCA 1895, NO. 27885

• Movement: 1a quality, 19''' cal. 43 gilded ½ plate, spring detent escapement, large free-sprung bi-metallic compensation balance, blued steel helical spring, decoratively engraved balance cock, diamond endstone, some jewels carried in gold screwed chatons, fusee and chain, signed and numbered A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden, no.27885
• Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with five-minute Arabic numeral divisions above, sunken centre and subsidiary seconds, gold Louis XV style hands, signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden
• Case: 18ct pink gold Lucia a Goutte case with plain polished covers, glazed movement cover, plain polished gold cuvette, lever for hand-set beneath bezel at 2 o'clock, covers and cuvette signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, back cover and cuvette numbered 27885, front cover numbered 85

diameter 57mm

Provenance:
Martin Huber, Die Uhren von A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte Sachsen, 1988, p.105 pl. 82, and p.167, table 5
Martin Huber, Die Lange Liste, 2000, pp. 100-101, table 19
Reinhard Meis, A. Lange & Söhne the Watchmakers of Dresden, Vol II, 2012, p. 150, figs. 456-458
Klassikuhren, Vol VI, 1994
Reinhard Meis, Adolph Lange und seine Söhne, Klassik Uhren, 6-1994, p.20