3,000 CHF
LONGINES MOTORING & AVIATION Longines, No. 4442004. Made circa 1925. Fine and rare, silver and gold niello and damascened, hunting cased, keyless pocket watch, the decoration by Huguenin. Four-body, forme collier, the front cover decorated with a gold damascened fl ying boat in a niello river landscape, fl at nielloed band, the back cover decorated with a nielloed scene of an early racing car on a track with a stadium behind. Hinged silver cuvette engraved with the prize medals. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. 18.80, 16 ½’’’, rhodium plated, fausses côtes decoration, 15 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel fl at balance spring, index regulator. Dial, cuvette and movement signed, case signed Huguenin. Diam. 47 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-11-13
