Lot 120

A. Lange & Söhne

DUF Silencieus

An important, thin Glashuette hunting case pocket watch with noise-reduced quarter repeater and 8 K gold watch chain, sold on January 19, 1914 to J. Kristfeld company, Nuremberg for 699 marks, with original box, original certificate and copies of the extract from the archives from the watch museum Glashuette. The watch was last owned by the famous German graphic designer Kurt Weidemann (1922-2011)

Sold

The quarter repeater is silenced, which is why the model was sold in the "Silencieus" range. Martin Huber’s "Lange-Liste" only records 44 silenced pocket watches.

Kurt Weidemann (1922-2011) was a German graphic designer, typographer, writer and university lecturer.
Weidemann revised or designed the corporate identity of many renowned German companies such as co op, Zeiss, Merck, Mercedes-Benz,
Daimler-Benz, Deutsche Aerospace, Porsche and Deutsche Bahn. He also designed books for the Gutenberg book club and the publishing houses Ullstein, Propyläen, Ernst Klett and Thieme.
In the 1960s Kurt Weidemann gave the watch to the pilot Gordon F. Monson after a successful emergency landing in Stuttgart. After Monson’s death his widow returned the watch to Weidemann.