$3,000
TUTIMA GLASHUTTE GERMAN MILITARY PILOT'S WATCH Tutima Glashutte, No. 207200. Made circa 1940. Fine and unusual, nickel-brass and stainless steel aviator’s wristwatch with rotating bezel, round button chronograph and register. To be sold without reserve Three-body, brushed, bi-directional graduated reeded bezel, straight curved lugs, screw-down steel numbered case back. Matte black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, outer minute and 1/5th seconds track. Luminous steel skeleton hands. 15’’’, brass-plated, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed Glashütte. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 14 mm. From The Arman Collection Notes The Glashütte factories manufactured approximately 30,000 numbered chronograph wristwatches for military use.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-03-10