102nd Auction
2020/6/29
Lot 68
A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte i.Sa., Movement No. 61348, Case No. 61348, 54 mm, 124 g, circa 1910
An extremely rare Glashuette half hunting case pocket watch with chronograph and 30 min. counter - manufactured in quality 1A - with Lange extract from the archives and formerly with rating certificate of the observatory Leipzig, sold on 1910/03/03 to Schwarz & Steiner company in Vienna for 732 Marks
Case: 18k pink gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, gold screw compensation balance.
In the opinion of the watch and clock museum in Glashütte, this timepiece with such an unusual grading system on the dial could be "a tailor-made watch made to order for a lead engineer or a factory owner who wanted to work out from tests how much time a worker needed to produce one piece, i.e., how many pieced could be produced per hour. The scales also show km per hour for a distance of 1,000 m. The highest value on the scale is set at 150 km per hour." As the Lange records list now other chronograph with such a tachymeter scale, this is without doubt a rare collector’s piece, which came with a hefty price tag even in its time: The tailor-made dial at 20 marks cost as much as the issuing of the certificate by the observatory in Leipzig.
An extremely rare Glashuette half hunting case pocket watch with chronograph and 30 min. counter - manufactured in quality 1A - with Lange extract from the archives and formerly with rating certificate of the observatory Leipzig, sold on 1910/03/03 to Schwarz & Steiner company in Vienna for 732 Marks
Case: 18k pink gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, gold screw compensation balance.
In the opinion of the watch and clock museum in Glashütte, this timepiece with such an unusual grading system on the dial could be "a tailor-made watch made to order for a lead engineer or a factory owner who wanted to work out from tests how much time a worker needed to produce one piece, i.e., how many pieced could be produced per hour. The scales also show km per hour for a distance of 1,000 m. The highest value on the scale is set at 150 km per hour." As the Lange records list now other chronograph with such a tachymeter scale, this is without doubt a rare collector’s piece, which came with a hefty price tag even in its time: The tailor-made dial at 20 marks cost as much as the issuing of the certificate by the observatory in Leipzig.
Sold
estimated
16.000—22.000 €
Price realized
22.700 €