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Lot Essay
With original A. Lange & Söhne fitted brown presentation box. Furthermore accompanied by A. Lange & Söhne Certificate stating that the present watch with the number 60'745 was sold on 15 August 1910 for 1,006 Marks to the company's concessionary Fr. Fritzhoff in Breslau, which is now Wroclaw. A copy of the archival entry of the watch is also supplied.
In excellent overall condition, the current quarter repeater is testimony to A. Lange & Söhne's high-quality watch production, boasting a quality 1 movement of 19''', or 43 mm., diameter. Reserved for its best watches, quality 1A movements were executed in a precise and beautiful manner. The movement of this watch has a nice grainy surface finish on the company's typical three-quarter plate, showing several screwed gold chatons and a nicely engraved balance cock with swan neck regulator and diamond endstone as well as a blued steel Breguet balance spring. Encased in a beautiful pink gold Louis XV case, the watch has an intact white enamel dial with three steps: one for the chapter ring with its Breguet numerals, one for the watch centre with the hour and minute hands and the deepest step for the subsidiary seconds. The front and back covers are held together by a five-joint decorative hinge. As with Patek Philippe watches, timekeepers with heavy cases consisting of five or multiple joints were reserved for more important watches as they created extra work for the case maker and are a sign of superior craftsmanship. The watch also comes with its original box, which is a plus for any collector.
The front cover of the watch carries the initials R.H., which stands for a certain Reinhold Hoffmann as can be seen on the engraving on the cuvette, though no additional information is available. The cuvette is further engraved with the city name of Lodz, Poland's third largest city, and the street name Petrikauerstrasse 101. At the time, this part of Poland belonged to the territory of Prussia, hence the German-sounding street name.
For further illustrations of the company's quarter repeaters see A. Lange & Söhne. Eine Uhrmacherdynastie aus Dresden by Reinhard Meis, Band II, pp. 244 to 247.
In excellent overall condition, the current quarter repeater is testimony to A. Lange & Söhne's high-quality watch production, boasting a quality 1 movement of 19''', or 43 mm., diameter. Reserved for its best watches, quality 1A movements were executed in a precise and beautiful manner. The movement of this watch has a nice grainy surface finish on the company's typical three-quarter plate, showing several screwed gold chatons and a nicely engraved balance cock with swan neck regulator and diamond endstone as well as a blued steel Breguet balance spring. Encased in a beautiful pink gold Louis XV case, the watch has an intact white enamel dial with three steps: one for the chapter ring with its Breguet numerals, one for the watch centre with the hour and minute hands and the deepest step for the subsidiary seconds. The front and back covers are held together by a five-joint decorative hinge. As with Patek Philippe watches, timekeepers with heavy cases consisting of five or multiple joints were reserved for more important watches as they created extra work for the case maker and are a sign of superior craftsmanship. The watch also comes with its original box, which is a plus for any collector.
The front cover of the watch carries the initials R.H., which stands for a certain Reinhold Hoffmann as can be seen on the engraving on the cuvette, though no additional information is available. The cuvette is further engraved with the city name of Lodz, Poland's third largest city, and the street name Petrikauerstrasse 101. At the time, this part of Poland belonged to the territory of Prussia, hence the German-sounding street name.
For further illustrations of the company's quarter repeaters see A. Lange & Söhne. Eine Uhrmacherdynastie aus Dresden by Reinhard Meis, Band II, pp. 244 to 247.