Lot 528

A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte B/Dresden, Movement No. 91958, Case No. 91958, 50 mm, 84 g, circa 1923
A gold Glashuette pocket watch - manufactured in quality 1A - sold on 1923/09/21 to company Brinkmann & Lange in Bremen for 490 Swiss francs with original box and certificate and Lange extract from the archives
Case: 18k gold. Dial: gilt, engine-turned. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, gold screw compensation balance.
1923 – Germany suffers from dramatic inflation. Thus the price of this Lange & Söhne watch is given in foreign currency; while the timepiece costs 490 Swiss francs, it is shipped by registered parcel insured for 288,000,000 German mark ...