12,600 HKD
Chronographe Rattrapante Longines, “Chronographe Rattrapante”, No. 2328484. Made circa 1915. Fine, silver, keyless pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. To be sold without reserve Four-body, "demi-bassine", polished, split-seconds gold push-button on the band. Hinged silver cuvette engraved with the Grand-Prix prize medals. White enamel with bold painted dauphine numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second chronograph divisions, red painted Arabic five seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds dial and 30-minute register with red numerals. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 19.73N, 19’’’, frosted gilt, 21 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible split-seconds mechanism. Dial, case and cuvette signed. Diam. 52 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-08