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A.Lange Sohne Chronometer Silver Enamel WWI German Pilot's Award Pocket Watch A.Lange Sohne Chronometer Silver Enamel WWI German Pilot's Award Pocket Watch
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I am pleased to offer from my private collection the most important historical WWI era German military award A.Lange&Sohne,Glashutte Deutsche Uhrenfabrikation Glashutte Silver &enamel anchor CHRONOMETER pocket watch in Excellent/MINT CONDITION.
The watch depicting an enamelled portrait of the famous German pilot ace Manfred von Richthofen known as The Red Baron.
Extremely rare and highly collectible watch.
The watch is very impressive-103g heavy.
Oversized-53mm in diameter.
The watch has a high grade anchor chronometer movement-the most accuarate mechanical time keeper ever created by the company!
This legendary 3/4 plate movement makes A.Lange&Sohne world famous company! Adolph Lange invented the 3/4 plate movement for better stability of the watch. The movement is 23kt goldplated,all hand finished,blue steel screws(untouched by human hand!),precision swan neck micrometric regulator,blue Breguet hairspring,the winding wheels are polished in a special way,the balance wheel is fited with gold compensateing weights,hand engraved balance cock.
The movement is numbered and signed.
The watch is in perfect working order-keeping exact time.
Fine triple sunk enamel dial with original solid gold hands.Original crystal. All the parts original.
The Lange watches are most highly priced in the German sales.
The watch comes with APPRAISAL CERTIFICATE FOR $9,000.00.
Some history:
On December 7, 1845, Adolph Lange set up his own production workshops in Glashutte, near Dresden, laying the foundation of Saxony's -- and Germany's - precision- watchmaking industry. For some years, he had been studying ways of producing high-value timepieces of consistent quality in series, and now was the opportunity to realize his ambitions. He started the enterprise with his brother-in-law, the master watchmaker Adolf Schneider, and 15 apprentices.
During his travels, Adolph Lange had drawn meticulously precise plans for new machine tools in his journal/workbook, and had embarked upon the exact determination of movement parts, gearing calculations and conversion tables between the French ligne and the metric system.
His vision and ideas began to take shape. Soon, a fundamental break with many of the traditional artisan techniques became apparent at Adolph Lange's first Glashutte workshops. The introduction of powerful flywheel lathes increased the speed and precision of parts manufacture. His theories on the division of labor encouraged many of his employees over the years to set themselves up in specialist workshops for watch jewels, screws, wheels, mainspring barrels, balance wheels and hands. In this way, Glashutte could become independent from foreign suppliers.
Growing demand for Lange's precision pocket watches, coupled with increasing economic prosperity after the foundation of the German empire, meant that Lange's first workshops soon became too small. Adolph Lange established new facilities for his workforce that had meanwhile grown to almost 60 employees. The buildings, which they occupied in 1873, became the family compound.
The premises accommodated the typical 19th century business organization of the owner-manager, with the Lange family home and the watch-manufacturing workshops in the same complex. As a unique feature, Adolph Lange built a master clock for the new building. It had a nine-meter pendulum of cedarwood and zinc, which weighed 128 kilos.
The Lange family complex marked the golden age of Lange watchmaking from the end of the Franco-Prussian war in 1871 to the Great Depression. In 1895, a telephone link to the Berlin Observatory was installed to get accurate time signals for a new chronometry workshop that expanded the watchmaking facilities.
It was also during this time that Lange's most beautiful pocket watches were produced -- among them, a spectacular Grande Complication repeating pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph, perpetual calendar and moon phase, circa 1908.
The Lange family house was the birthplace of Adolph Lange's grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and it was here that Walter Lange spent his childhood and youth. On May 8, 1945, the main production building -- known as the "hangar" -- was demolished in a bombing raid. Shortly after it was rebuilt, the A. Lange & Sohne Company was expropriated by the Socialist government and all the buildings seized. Like so many watch companies, the production of high quality wristwatches and pocket watches came to a grinding halt.
The reunification of Germany gave Walter Lange the courage to claim the legacy of a family tradition that he had given up on. On December 7, 1990, 145 years to the day after his great-grandfather Adolph Lange founded the business, he arrived in Glashutte and started a new company, Lange Uhren GmbH.
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