98th Auction
2018/11/10
Lot 54
A. Lange & Söhne Dresden, Movement No. 9706, Case No. 9706, Cal. 45, 52 mm, 138 g, circa 1872
A historically important Glashuette hunting case pocket watch with early independent jumping seconds mechanism "seconde morte" - manufactured in quality 1A - sold on December 21st 1875 to the Privy Councillor of Commerce Richard Hartmann, Chemnitz - with Lange extract from the archives
Case: 18k gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, gold screw compensation balance.
The last owner of the watch who was a member of the Hartmann family and had his name inscribed on the cuvette had to part from it on October 20, 1910; it was the day when Gustav Hartmann died. He was the son of company founder Richard Hartmann (1809-1878), who turned a workshop for spinning machines started in 1839 into one of the most successful machine building enterprises in Saxony - the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik.
Richard Hartmann originally trained to be a craft metalworker in his native Alsace; with the support of the Saxon government he started building the first steam engines in 1848 - these locomotives would eventually be exported all over the world. As early as 1858 the hundredth engine was finished and in 1878 the thousandth engine into service. At this time the company employed well over 2,000 people.
His son Johannes Wilhelm Richard Hartmann was the next owner of the watch; he died in 1907.
The second son Gustav Hartmann became a partner in the company in 1867 and later a board member and member of the supervisory board. In 1896 he founded the Russische Maschinenbaugesellschaft Hartmann in Lugansk, which would eventually be the largest manufacturer of locomotives in Europe. In 1903 Hartmann was appointed chairman of the supervisory board of the Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen. The listed building "Villa Hartmann", where he lived after 1881, is one of the few remaining prestigious Wilhelminian style villas in Dresden.
The marvellous condition of this fine Glashütte hunter watch - itself a top quality product produced in Saxony - is proof that metalworkers and machine entrepreneurs too have an appreciation for precision engineering.
A historically important Glashuette hunting case pocket watch with early independent jumping seconds mechanism "seconde morte" - manufactured in quality 1A - sold on December 21st 1875 to the Privy Councillor of Commerce Richard Hartmann, Chemnitz - with Lange extract from the archives
Case: 18k gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, gold screw compensation balance.
The last owner of the watch who was a member of the Hartmann family and had his name inscribed on the cuvette had to part from it on October 20, 1910; it was the day when Gustav Hartmann died. He was the son of company founder Richard Hartmann (1809-1878), who turned a workshop for spinning machines started in 1839 into one of the most successful machine building enterprises in Saxony - the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik.
Richard Hartmann originally trained to be a craft metalworker in his native Alsace; with the support of the Saxon government he started building the first steam engines in 1848 - these locomotives would eventually be exported all over the world. As early as 1858 the hundredth engine was finished and in 1878 the thousandth engine into service. At this time the company employed well over 2,000 people.
His son Johannes Wilhelm Richard Hartmann was the next owner of the watch; he died in 1907.
The second son Gustav Hartmann became a partner in the company in 1867 and later a board member and member of the supervisory board. In 1896 he founded the Russische Maschinenbaugesellschaft Hartmann in Lugansk, which would eventually be the largest manufacturer of locomotives in Europe. In 1903 Hartmann was appointed chairman of the supervisory board of the Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen. The listed building "Villa Hartmann", where he lived after 1881, is one of the few remaining prestigious Wilhelminian style villas in Dresden.
The marvellous condition of this fine Glashütte hunter watch - itself a top quality product produced in Saxony - is proof that metalworkers and machine entrepreneurs too have an appreciation for precision engineering.
Sold
estimated
17.000—30.000 €
Price realized
26.100 €