A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte

A RARE PINK GOLD QUARTER REPEATING KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH DEAD CENTRE SECONDS, DAY AND DATE INDICATION, STOP/START PUSHER FOR SECONDS THE GOLD CASE LATER PURPOSE BUILT IN THE STYLE OF A. LANGE & SÖHNE MOVEMENT CIRCA 1910 NO.43052, CASE CIRCA 1980

• Movement: 1a quality, cal. 43 gilded ½ plate, gold lever and escape wheel, bi-metallic compensation balance, decoratively engraved balance cock, diamond endstone, precision swan-neck regulation, the dead seconds work mounted and visible to the backplate, some jewels carried in gold screwed chatons, polished steel hammers repeating on coiled gongs, signed and numbered A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte i/S, no.43052
• Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, gold Louis XV style hands, gold dead centre seconds hand, three sunken subsidiary dials for constant seconds, date and day, signed A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte B/Dresden
• Case: later pink gold, custom made in the style of a Lange & Söhne "Louis XV" case, polished covers with stepped bezels, plain polished gold cuvette, the pusher to the crown activating the start/stop of the centre seconds whilst the cover is open, repeating slide to the band, gold lever for hand-set beneath bezel at 2 o'clock, steel levers for day and date adjustment beneath bezel respectively at 6 o'clock and 4 o'clock
• Accessories: A. Lange & Söhne fitted presentation case

diameter 60mm

Provenance:
Martin Huber, Die Uhren von A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte Sachsen, 1988, p.177, table 44