Lange&Söhne Glashütte Age Determination Pocket Watch Chronographs by Movement Number

Movement numbers and year of manufacture of Lange&Söhne pocket watch chronographs in ascending order according to Martin Huber

It is noticeable that apparently - for whatever reason - the watches were not built and numbered consecutively; chronographs keep appearing which are mentioned/registered with a higher movement number than the following years.

Presumably, the year does not describe the time of production, but the time of sale of the chronograph and it was more a matter of chance which chronograph "from stock" with which movement number Lange&Söhne sold to the customer or finally assembled at the customer's request.

In the following list, an attempt is made to assign the earliest identifiable sales date to the movement numbers, because if the movement number 29.853 was sold in 1896, then it must have been built before this date, even if a chronograph only 4 movement numbers higher appears in the lists as "sold" years later.

Serial number Year of manufacture

5739 1868

7208 1870

13356 1880

14840 1881

16041 1882

16694 1883

27422 1889

28,082 1890

29,162 1892

29,853 1896

38,470 1899

42,175 1901

41,691 1903

48,643 1905

51,109 1906

52,954 1907

62,381 1910

63,284 1912

63,290 1915

63300 1916

63,354 1917

63,359 1918

64,602 1920

72,774 1922

73,203 1925

89,851 1932

89,916 1937

89,923 1940

Source: Martin Huber "The watches of Lange%Söhne Glashütte"