262,500 HKD
LONGINES REF. 23086 AVIATION CHRONOGRAPH STEEL Longines, No. 6964542, Ref. No. 23086, No. 114. Made circa 1945. Very fine and rare, large, stainless steel wristwatch with chronograph, 12-hour register and red central progressive minute register hand. Three-body, polished and brushed, numbered and engraved screw-down case back, concave lugs with underside numbered 114. Brushed, silvered, with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second scale, subsidiary seconds dial for constant seconds and 12- hour register. Luminous skeleton hands, red central minute register hand. & G.Toselli and Chronograph wristwatches by Gerd R.Lang and Reinhard Meis. It is interesting to note that all of the examples illustrated have the identical configurations of case, dial and hand design with no variations evident. Furthermore, each watch is stamped with a continuation issue number both to the case back and inner shoulder; From the numbers researched It can be assumed that no more than 500 of this model were manufactured. Cal. 137N, 13''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and Notes movement signed, movement stamped LXW indicating it was originally destined for the US market. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 39.5 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. Produced in a contemporary sized 39.5 mm.diameter case, the steel Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-07-09
