Lot 40

A. Lange & Söhne

A magnificent Glashuette quarter repeating hunting case pocket watch with chronograph and 30 min. counter and case decoration after Prof. Carl Ludwig Graff; manufactured in quality 1A and sold to J. W. Kuhlmann in Emmerich for 1550 Reichsmarks on June 19, 1894 - with extract from the archives from the watch museum Glashuette

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This watch belongs to a small series of only 62 quarter-repeating chronographs produced by A. Lange & Söhne. The series includes models with and without minute registers in various types of cases.
The present model has a case decorated according to Professor Graff. It has specially made initials and engravings and was sold in 1894 for 1550 Reichsmark.
The large and heavy pink gold and enamel case is decorated on the front with a raised, intertwined monogram amidst a palmette frieze, the back with a pattern of engraved palmettes, acanthus leaves, lion heads and floral tendrils, set in a black champlevé enamel frame with a central cartouche and engraving "Johannifest 1894".
The watch is recorded in "Die Lange-Liste" by Martin Huber, Munich 2000, p. 190.

Prof. Karl Ludwig Theodor Graff, who was appointed director of the Institute of Applied Arts in Dresden (Dresdner Kunstgewerbeschule) in 1875, to create designs in this vein. From the 1880s onwards, more and more ostentatious decorations were created at Lange & Soehne company. Professor Graff then copyrighted his design which had won first prize in the Institute of Applied Arts' 1890 competition for the design and decoration of pocket watch cases.