338,500 CHF
LANGE & SÖHNE POUR LE MÉRITE TOURBILLON LIMITED EDITION – WHITE GOLD – THE FIRST EXAMPLE IN WHITE GOLD AT AUCTION A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte I/SA., Tourbillon “Pour le Mérite,” movement No. 409, No. 133/150, case No. 110383, Ref. 701.001. Made circa 1996 in a limited edition of 150 examples – 15 in white gold. Extremely fine and equally rare, 18K white gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, 36-hour power reserve and an 18K white gold A. Lange & Söhne buckle. Accompanied by a Lange & Sohne proof of origin. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, curved straight lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Blued with painted Arabic numerals and dot indexes on the outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the seconds at 9 and the power reserve indication at 3, aperture with polished steel bridge to view the tourbillon cage at 6. White gold alpha hands. Cal. L 902.0, Glashütte 3/4 plate, maillechort, fausses cotes decoration, 29 ruby jewels including 5 in screw-mounted gold chatons, power equalization with chain and fusée maintaining power and stepped planetary gearing, tourbillon cage bearing 2 diamond endstones, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with equidistant polished steel three-arm carriage, Glucydur balance with screws adjusted to 5 positions, Nivarox balance-spring with Strasser overcoil, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, hand engraved balance bridge. Dial, case and movement
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-03-17
