106th Auction
2022/5/21
Lot 6
A. Lange & Söhne
A very fine and heavy Glashuette hunting case pocket watch manufactured in quality 1A and sold on 06/22/1904 to W. Giese in Hamburg for 582 Marks - with extract from the archives from the watch museum Glashuette
Sold
estimated
4.500—6.000 €
Price realized
10.700 €
specific features
Case
18 K pink gold, polished, case design "Lucia".
Dial
Enamel.
Movement
3/4 plate movement, gold screw compensation balance.
Case no.45828
Cal.45
Diam.55 mm
Circa1904
Ctry.Germany
Wt.1700 g
This watch is recorded in "Die Lange-Liste" by Martin Huber, Munich 2000, p. 40 under "Watches with special rate testing at the Leipzig Observatory and the German Naval Observatory in Hamburg. In the period from 1883 to 1905, 998 watches were tested at the Leipzig Observatory by A. Lange & Söhne; in the records only about half of these are marked as "tested".