Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection

A. Lange, Dresden

A gold hunting cased keyless lever watch

Circa 1872, no. 7890 

• Movement:  gilded ²/₃ plate, gold lever and escape wheel, some jewels carried in screwed gold chatons, bi-metallic compensation balance, diamond endstone, signed and numbered Adolph Lange, Dresden, 7890

• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, recessed subsidiary seconds, blued steel hands, signed A. Lange, Dresden and with secret signature MV beside 1 o'clock

• Case: 18ct pink gold, plain flat polished covers with milled edges, polished gold cuvette engraved 'Presented to H. S. Murray, by his friends in East Chester, Dec 5, 1872, hand-setting lever beneath bezel, covers and cuvette stamped CWS for Charles William Schumann and numbered 7890, gilt bow

diameter 52mm