German gold chronograph with regulator dial circa 1868

Full hunter cased pocket watch by A. Lange
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A rare Glashütte full hunter cased pocket watch with regulator dial and chronograph, circa 1868.
This rare piece has an 18 Carat pink gold, polished case with an engraved medallion with rampant lion and inscription DUCIT AMOR PATRIAE (The love of our country is leading us), a signed gold dome with presentation engraving James Shindler 1868 and Arthur Wellesley Kipling, June 6th 1906, chronograph pusher at 12 o’clock and case maker’s punch mark SG. A signed enamel dial with Roman numerals on an eccentric hour dial, central Arabic minutes, auxiliary seconds and blued spade hands. And a signed, frosted, gilt 2/3 plate movement with screwed gold chatons, a gold screw compensation balance, blued balance spring with a terminal curve, a very finely engraved balance cock, a gold lever and an escape wheel, and a chatoned diamond end stone on balance.
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Diameter: 52 mm
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Weight: 107 g
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Signed: A. Lange, Dresden
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A nearly identical watch (no. 5871) is illustrated on page 240f. Reinhard Meis’ “A. Lange und Söhne”; Meis writes: “Around 1867/68 Adolph Lange had already developed pocket watches with additional chronograph function and built them in a small series. The mechanism was set up under the dial. The wheel moving the chronograph hand sat directly on the cannon pinion and was driven by the seconds wheel via a clutch lever. For lack of space the hour hand was moved up and off center. A pusher at 12 o’clock started and stopped the chronograph hand and reset it to zero.”