1,560 CHF
Pilot’s Watch Tutima Glashutte, “Pilot’s Watch”, movement and case No. 214559. Made circa 1942. Very fine and rare, nickel-brass and stainless steel aviator’s wristwatch with “retour en vol” round button chronograph and register. To be sold without reserve Three-body, polished and brushed, bi-directional graduated reeded bezel, straight curved lugs, screwed-down case back. Matte black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, outer minute and 1/5th seconds track. Luminous steel skeleton hands. 15’’’, rhodium-plated, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed Glashütte. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Notes A similar watch is illustrated in “Military Timepieces” by Konrad Knirim, pp. 365-372.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
