Lot 34

A. Lange & Söhne

SAXONIA JAHRESKALENDER

A very elegant Glashuette wristwatch with Lange oversize date, English weekday and month display and moon phase

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The elegant SAXONIA ANNUAL CALENDAR combines several calendar functions. In addition to the time, the dial displays the date, the day of the week, the month and the moon phase. A sophisticated mechanism identifies whether a month has 30 or 31 days. The display needs to be updated just once a year, at the change of February to March.
If the watch is running continually, the moon phase display only deviates by one day in 122.6 years. Correctors are embedded in the case to facilitate the setting of the outsize date, the day of the week, the month and the moon phase. The patented ZERO-RESET mechanism provides for easy time setting – when the crown is pulled, the movement stops and the seconds hand jumps to zero. The minute hand can be positioned in line with the relevant minute marker and the watch restarted accurately.
The bidirectional ¾ winding rotor is made of 21 K gold and a platinum oscillating weight, the balance cock is hand engraved. The moon disc is made of solid pink gold.