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Lot 88 · Masterworks of Time: Adolf Lange, The Golden Era of Glashütte

a rare and early gold single cased perpetuelle watch with polychrome enamel painted dial and centre secondscirca 1785

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Estimate
CHF 4,000–CHF 6,000 hammer ≈ $4,025–$6,038
Result
Performance
Sale
Sotheby's — Masterworks of Time: Adolf Lange, The Golden Era of Glashütte, Geneva · 11 November 2019
Record ID
TB-2026-4782451
Record
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Swiss, a rare and early gold single cased perpetuelle watch with polychrome enamel painted dial and centre secondscirca 1785. Sotheby's, 11 Nov 2019, lot 88. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4782451.

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Swiss, a rare and early gold single cased perpetuelle watch with polychrome enamel painted dial and centre secondscirca 1785. Sotheby's, 11 Nov 2019, lot 88. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4782451.

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