A. Lange & Söhne Tourbillon pour le mérite, platinum 42/50, at Heritage

Auctions · · by Christian Bissener


Caseback of the platinum A. Lange & Söhne Tourbillon pour le mérite showing the movement and the engraving 42/50

Heritage Auctions offered a Tourbillon pour le mérite number 42 of 50 in platinum on 20 November 2014 (lot 60251, estimate $250,000–275,000).

The Tourbillon pour le mérite was one of the four watches A. Lange & Söhne presented in 1994, and it was limited to 200 pieces overall: 50 in platinum, 116 in yellow gold, 18 in white gold (one of them with a black dial), 15 in red gold and one in steel. The white gold version with the black dial had sold at Christie’s on 12 May for 358,985 €. Another white gold example, with a blue dial, was rebuilt by Grieb & Benzinger as their Blue Merite.

Silver dial of the platinum Tourbillon pour le mérite with sub-dials and tourbillon at six o’clock
Number 42/50 in platinum

Photographs: Heritage Auctions.