A. LANGE & SÖHNE GLASHÜTTE, NO. 1374. CIRCA 1941

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A rare German marine chronometer with lever escapement and electro contacts
A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte, No. 1374. Circa 1941
The silvered dial with Roman chapters and brass hour and minute hands, signed A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte B /DRESDEN 1374, up-and-down dial below XII and subsidiary seconds at VI, both subsidiaries with blued steel hands, the frosted gilt movement with spring barrel with individual bridge with double ratchet wind, the escapement with blued steel helical spring, cut bimetallic compensated balance, the lever escapement with jewelled pallets and berylium escape wheel with jewelled chatons, the top plate with the stamp for A. LÄNGE & SÖHNE GLASHÜTTE, electric contacts to one side, the gilt plates with an additional stamp for the Lange factory, the left side with unusual hand-set facility, the brass bowl numbered 1374, lacquered brass gimbal, the two-tier box with drop handles to the sides, electric contacts to the left side, the front top section applied with a black painted plaque signed A. LÄNGE & SÖHNE 1374 GLASÜTTE i/Sa.
7in. (18cm.) high box

Provenance

Sold Auktionen Dr H Crott, Frankfurt, 8 November 1997, lot 710

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

The present marine chronometer was made to order as a timing instrument to be used to control a special high resolution reconnaissance camera intended to fit an aeroplane in the German Luftwaffe. It was sold to Karl Zeiss on 20 November 1941 to receive its special fittings for this express purpose. The balance wheel is signed RGG within a triangle, for the maker Richard Griesbach.

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