$460
Leonidas, "Chronografo a Ritorno", No. 159768, Reversing Stop Watch for Equal Distance Bomb Sight, Height graduated in meters. Produced in the 1940's. Fine , stainless steel, military watch with round single button, back and forth "retrograde" chronograph. three-body, brushed, lobed revolving bezel, mobile lugs. The pusher on the 11 is for stopping the chronograph hand, the coaxial pusher on the winding-crown is for starting the chronograph function back and forth and return to zero. black with radium-coated Arabic numerals graduated in "hm" from 5 to 60, the trianglular index on the outer graduation in fifth of second can be set by turning the bezel. "Lozenge" blued steel and radium coated chronograph hand.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-09-25