$3,540
"Single Button Chronograph" Longines, No. 7970694, Ref. 1876. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, 10K gold-filled gentleman's wristwatch with "retour en vol" single button chronograph with central minute recorder. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Breguet numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold "feuille" hands, blued steel center hand for the minute register. Cal. 1268 Z, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case, and movement signed. Diam. 31 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-06-14