A. Lange & Söhne
Register Chronograph A. Lange & Söhne Quarter Repetition Quarter 585 14K Gold
Register Chronograph A. Lange & Söhne Quarter Repetition Quarter 585 14K Gold
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Absolute rarity and museum collector’s item:
A. Lange & Söhne Glashütte / Dresden solid 585 14K gold men's pocket watch with the rarest complication of a column wheel register chronograph and additionally a quarter repeater, including an extract from the archives of the Glashütte Watch Museum
Lange & Söhne has only produced 720 pocket watches with chronograph complications, very few of them with registers, let alone register chronographs and repeaters, of which the vast majority ended up in the melting pot during two world wars and various economic crises.
Absolutely original and authentic, with identical movement and case numbers, including an extract from the archives. This magnificent Register Chronograph is mentioned and listed in the "Lange & Söhne" standard movement by Martin Huber with its movement number in the list of the 720 pocket chronographs ever produced.
Description:
Large and heavy original A. Lange & Söhne gold savonnette with column wheel register chronograph, Glashütte 1903
Link to a review and presentation of a similar Register Chronograph in the Bavarian Television program "Kunst und Krempel":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOcnwybK3JM#:~:text=This%20pocket%20watch%20was%20a%20long-held%20wish
Please note: The link only works if you enter it in a continuous manner! Furthermore, please note that the watch in this shipment was a DUF, meaning it was second-quality from the Lange & Söhne Glashütte watch manufacturer, and did not have a high-quality quarter repeater. The museum-quality artifact in this offer is therefore significantly higher quality and more valuable!
Rare antique pocket watch pusher chronograph with register counter from 1903 according to the archive extract
14K rose gold, including dust cover, case number 51102. Hand-wound movement caliber 43 with gold lever and escape wheel, bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet hairspring, column-wheel chronograph, swan-neck fine adjustment, and blued screws
Movement number 51102. 4-piece white enamel dial with Arabic numerals and red second scale, gold Louis XV hands, diameter approx. 54mm without crown
This magnificent piece of watch history runs continuously (accuracy not tested)
EZ: 1 - 2: few noticeable signs of age or wear, dial unrestored flawless, high-precision movement sparkling clean, all lids close tightly and flush, the magnificent artifact starts and runs
History of the best German watch manufacturer "Lange&Söhne" Glashütte (Source: Wikipedia):
A. Lange & Söhne
| Lange Uhren GmbH | |
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| Legal form | Limited liability company |
| Founding | 1845 / 1990 |
| seat | Glassworks ,  Germany
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| Line | Wilhelm Schmid |
| Number of employees | 750 (worldwide) [1] |
| Industry | watch manufacturer |
A. Lange & Söhne is now the registered trademark of the German watch manufacturer Lange Uhren GmbH from Glashütte , Saxony . Lange Uhren GmbH, in turn, belongs to the Richemont Group.
History
From 1845
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On December 7, 1845, the Saxon watchmaker Ferdinand Adolph Lange , a student and son-in-law of the Saxon court watchmaker Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes senior , founded the watch manufactory "A. Lange & Cie." in Glashütte near Dresden. In an early example of state structural policy, Lange received 7,800 thalers for the founding of the company and for the training of 15 apprentices in the structurally weak Glashütte near Dresden, as financial aid from the Royal Saxon Ministry of the Interior in the form of a loan. The company struggled for a long time with initial difficulties, but by 1875 the company had over 70 employees. Ferdinand Adolph Lange thus gave impetus to the development of the structurally weak town in the Saxon Ore Mountains as a center of German precision watchmaking and in competition with the established Swiss manufacturers. Ferdinand Adolf Lange's two eldest sons, Richard and Emil Lange , joined their father's company in 1868, which was subsequently renamed "A. Lange & Söhne." Under the direction of Lange's sons, the manufactory achieved worldwide fame.
The M. Stellmann company, founded in Hanover in 1886, immediately became the main branch of the Glashütte company. [2]
A. Lange & Söhne existed for exactly 103 years until 1948, when the company was expropriated by the Soviet occupying forces. Until then, Emil Lange's sons, Otto, Rudolf, and Gerhard, steered the company's fortunes. More than 30 watch patents were issued under Ferdinand Adolf Lange and his descendants.
Until 1877, the company name and brand name "A. Lange & Söhne" were identical. In 1877, a second, somewhat simplified pocket watch series appeared under the brand name "Deutsche Uhrenfabrikation." From this point on, A. Lange & Söhne owned two renowned watch brands. Later, "OLIW" (Original Lange Internationales Werk) was added as a third brand, marking the first step toward industrial pocket watch production. The company missed the trend toward wristwatches; until 1945, wristwatches were primarily built with purchased movements of Swiss origin. It wasn't until after 1945 that the first and—until the company was refounded in 1990—only Lange wristwatch movement (caliber 28) was developed.
Development since the 1950s
During the Soviet occupation from 1945 and from 1949 in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), seven remaining watch factories and suppliers in Glashütte were nationalized and merged in 1951 to form the state-owned enterprise VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe (GUB).
Rudolf Lange's two sons and great-grandchildren of Ferdinand Adolph Lange (I), Ferdinand Adolph Lange (II) (1922–1989) and Walter Lange (1924–2017), fled to western Germany. Ferdinand Adolph (II) founded the watch factory "A. Lange Pforzheim" in Würm near Pforzheim and managed its business. Watches were manufactured here using purchased German and Swiss movements. The company existed until 1987. Walter Lange worked at the company as workshop manager and later moved into the jewelry industry.
After German reunification in 1993, the Glashütter Uhrenbetrieb GmbH emerged from the state-owned enterprise GUB as the direct successor to the VEB.
New foundation
On December 7, 1990 – exactly 145 years to the day after his great-grandfather founded the company – at the age of 66, Walter Lange founded "Lange Uhren GmbH" as a new watch manufacturer and then acquired the trademark rights for "A. Lange & Söhne." These rights had initially been transferred to the state-owned GUB (Stately Owned Enterprise) as a result of Soviet expropriation and, after reunification, temporarily to the Treuhandanstalt (Treuhand Agency). While there is no direct legal company history, "Lange Uhren GmbH" continues the history of this venerable watch brand. The brand's resurgence is thanks to Günter Blümlein, then President of the International Watch Company (IWC). With financial and personnel support from LMH Holding ( Les Manufactures Horlogères ), which at the time—as the owner of Vacheron Constantin and a majority stake in Jaeger-LeCoultre —was part of VDO and, from 1994, was managed under the umbrella of Mannesmann AG , the new company successfully established itself on the market. In 2001, the company, along with several other Swiss watch brands, became part of the Richemont Group, headquartered in the canton of Geneva .
On October 24, 1994, Blümlein and Lange jointly presented their first four watch models: the LANGE 1 , the TOURBILLON “Pour le Mérite,” the SAXONIA , and the ARKADE . The Lange 1 , the Saxonia , and the Arkade featured the patented outsize date that has since become the brand’s hallmark – a outsize date display modeled on the stage clock for Dresden’s Semperoper , once built by Gutkaes. Other well-known models include the Datograph , the Cabaret , the Langematik Perpetual , the Double Split Chronograph , the Richard Lange , the Tourbograph Pour le Mérite , the Zeitwerk , and the Saxonia with the “Sax-0-Mat” automatic movement .
In the biannual ranking of the 30 most important German luxury brands compiled by Wirtschaftswoche magazine, the watch brand "A. Lange & Söhne" took first place in 2007, ahead of the Maybach automobile manufacturer . [3] In July 2008, the 500th employee was hired. [4]
On August 26, 2015, a new, larger manufacturing building was inaugurated in Glashütte by Chancellor Angela Merkel. The 5,400 square meter area provides space for 200 employees. [5]
On 17 January 2017, the re-founder Walter Lange died at the age of 92
Designation of origin “Glashütte” for watches
On 22 February 2022, the regulation on the protection of the geographical indication Glashütte came into force This means that the designation of origin "Glashütte" may only be used in commercial transactions for watches that were manufactured in the region of origin. The region of origin includes the following areas in the Free State of Saxony : the city of Glashütte, the districts of Bärenstein and Lauenstein in the city of Altenberg for supply and finishing, and Dresden for certain finishing steps.
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