4,500 CHF
Longines Grand Prix Chronographe Rattrapante YelloW Gold Pocket Wath Longines, “Chronographe Rattrapante”, case no. 2970529. Made circa 1920. Very fine, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch with splitseconds chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. Four-body, “demi-bassine”, polished, split-seconds gold push-button on the band at 11 o’clock, co-axial button in the crown for start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the Grand-Prix prize medals. White enamel with bold painted Arabic numerals, outer minutes/seconds divisions with every five Arabic markers in red, subsidiary seconds dial and 30-minute register with red numerals. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 19.73N, 19’’’, frosted gilt, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, visible split-seconds mechanism. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. diaM. 52 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-03-17
