$1,750
LONGINES ART NOUVEAU Longines, Swiss, No. 4805825. Made circa 1920. Very fine and rare open face 18K yellow and white gold Art Nouveau pocket watch. Three-body, polished. Bezel engraved with foliate pattern. Case back with similar pattern around engraved striping. Silver with painted Arabic numerals, subseconds at 6. Blued-steel cathedral hands. Cal. 18.89M, rhodium-plated, 16 jewels, fausses-cotes decoration, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-12-07