4,560 CHF
Longines Chronometer Deck Watch with Guillaume Balance – Owned by Prince Vladimir Orlov Longines, No. 2352418. Made circa 1910. Fine and rare, large, silver, keyless, lever chronometer deck watch with 50-hour power-reserve and Guillaume balance. Accompanied by the original Longines numbered wooden deck box and a silver-framed photograph of Prince Vladimir Orlov. Four-body, bassine et filets, polished, gold hinge. Hinged silver cuvette. Matte silver, champleve Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds, power-reserve sector below 12. Black pear hands. Cal. 24.99, 23’’’, matte gilt, bar bridge-type, 21 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, anibal-brass Guillaume balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, micrometer cam-type regulator. Dial, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 68 mm. Notes The Longines caliber 24.99 is illustrated and described in Military Timepieces, Marvin E. Whitney, 1992, p. 296-297. Provenance : Prince Vladimir Orlov, given in 1920 by his wife, Tatiana, nee Princess Galitzine, daughter of Prince Dimitri Galitzine and Countess Helena Luders-Weymarn.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-05-08
