Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection
B. Junge & Söhne, Glashütte
A pink gold open-faced keyles🅷s lever watch circa 1895, No.1206
No reserve
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September 16, 04:20 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection
B. Junge & Söhne, Glashütte
A pink gold open-faced keyless lever watch
Circa 1895, no. 1206
Movement: frosted gilded 2/3 plate, gold lever and escape wheel, some jewels carried in screwed gold chatons, bi-metallic compensation balance, ruby endstone, precision swan-neck regulation, signed B. Junge & Söhne, Glashütte b/Dresden and numbered 1206
• Dial: white enamel dial, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, gold hands, recessed subsidiary seconds, signed B. Junge & Söhne, Glashütte bei Dresden
• Case: Swiss 14ct pink gold, engine-turned back, polished bezel, olivette for hand-setting beside pendant, plain polished gold cuvette, back cover and cuvette numbered 1206 and with Swiss and German hallmarks
diameter 53.5mm
J. Bernhard Junge established a watchmaking factory with his sons in Glashütte in 1881. The new firm called itself B. Junge & Söhne Glashütte. In their advertisements they included the wording "under Glashütte watch industry," see R. Meis, The Glashütte Watch Industry, 1845-1945, 🎉2011, pp.376-386. Meis notes that the company produced between 1000-1400 watches. Although, they imported many of their ebauche from Switzerland they finished the movements in Glashütte style. Their production i🍬ncluded repeaters, chronographs, and watches with dead seconds.
B. Junge & Söhne participated in the 1895 Jubilee which celebrated fifty years of watchmaking in Glashütte. The firm showed a broad selection of their pieces. The present lot, no.1206 is illustrated, Op.Cit., pp.378-379, figs.1069-1071. Further examples of their work can be found Op.Cit, pp.376-385, figs.1064-1096.