LANGE & SOHNE 1ST QUALITY
QUARTER REPEATER SILVER & GOLD
A.Lange & Söhne, Glashütte Bei Dresden, No. 28363. Made
circa 1890.
Very fine and extremely rare, large, quarter-repeating, half-
hunting cased keyless silver and gold pocket watch with 1st
quality movement.
Four-body, bassine, polished, the front cover with gold-
rimmed glazed aperture and royal blue champlevé enamel
Arabic numerals, gold hinges, crown and repeat-slide.
Hinged silver cuvette.
White enamel with blue Arabic numerals, outer painted
gold dot minute divisions and blue Arabic five-minute numerals,
subsidiary seconds. Gold Louis XV hands.
18''', Glashütte 3/4-plate, frosted gilt, 18 jewels, gold
chatons with blued steel screws, straight line Glashütte
escapement, gold pallet fork and escape wheel, banking
with a pin and hole, Lange Guillaume-type balance with
gold timing screws, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, the
terminal stud adjustable by a screw, diamond endstone,
engraved balance cock, swan-neck micrometer regulator,
repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.