Trying to ID this maker..Adolf Schneider / Dresden

google turned this info up...

http://www.demesy.com/histories/lange_sohne.html

this watch is in a heavy 18kt HC case with matching serial #'s on both movement & case and same dimensions as the watch in the Hess auction
can anyone help??
thanks..
cheryl o........

The genealogy of Glashütte watchmaking - located in Saxony's Müglitz Valley - begins to 1845.

Ferdinand Adolph Lange of Dresden acquired a state loan and founded the first Glashütte watchmaking company, cross-training the area's weavers and miners.

He was soon joined by a veritable assortment of master watchmakers - Ernest Kasiske, Julius Assmann, Ludwig Strasser, Gustav Rohde and Adolf Schneider.

Cheryl,

Nice to hear from you again.. Movement appears to be an Adolf Lange from Dresden Germany.. But that is a uneducated guess...Very high quality if it is...it appears correct..jeweling, bridge layout, ect..

Schneider was one of the founders of the Glasshutte school of watchmaking. His watches are very similar to those of Lange as are the watches of Grossman and others who were involved. Lange is just the best known and most productive of the group.

I have a very slow connection here and did not read all of the above material. This is essentially a duplicate affirmation of the information.

Hi Cheryl!
That´s some european quality for a change, isn´t it?! Really nice and beautiful.
/Bernhard

Yes,
that is a nice example of German watchmaking. Cheryl what case is that in?

Thanks so much guys &(and gals) for the info...

David,the watch is housed in a 18kt case, fancy punch marked " M.F. & Co. ",serial # same as the movement with a quilted body and nice engine turned front and back.Measures 53mm across!
Very boxy and heavy.
Here is a photo of the front...

Hi John Pavlik!

cheryl o......

Could the Case be a
Monnier & Frey/ M.F. & Co. (Frey & Co.)
Are the Letters inside a Triangle?

If the case logo looks like this it is from Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago.

This is the one I mentioned above.
Do you have a picture of the Hallmarks on the Case?

HI GUYS,
HERE IS A SNAP OF THE MARK..
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP

CHERYL O........

Hi all!
Does this movement look like a true glashütte to you? I have hard to read what is written but maybe you can tell from the shape of the bridges and so on. Look at the regulator!
Regards!
Bernhard

Hmmm

Many times watches were marketed to German countries (and nearby countries) as "German" that were acutally swiss with a German looking ebauche.

That is what you have here IMO.

Anyone else have an idea.. I could certainly be wrong but that baby has GOT to be swiss...

Jeff

I will probably go along with Jeff on this one. However, there sure are a lot of Glasshute earmarks. The square arbor with the dog screw is usually definitive of German.

However, the square cross is the Swiss patent mark and Spiral Palladium (if that is what I am reading) looks like Non-Magnetic Watch Co. of Geneva content.

Is the maker name Borel & somebody?

For watches like this I am not sure it really matters which country the assembly work was actually performed in. The watch is clearly an international effort with intellectual content from both Switzerland and Germany.