15,340 CHF
Staybrite Chronograph Longines, movement No. 6210683, serial No.21514. Made circa 1945. Very fine and rare, stainless steel “Staybrite” gentleman`s wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer. Two-body, polished and brushed, flat bezel, downturned lugs, large winding crown, screw-down back. Black with painted silver Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, outermost tachometer scale. Steel “feuille” hands. Cal. 13 ZN, 13’’’, rhodium-plated and gilt, 19 jewels, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37.5 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Properrty of a Swiss collector Notes It is extremely rare to find a Staybrite chronograph sports watch in such excellent condition. Longines The beginnings of Longines can be traced to 1832, when Auguste Agassiz began working at the Comptoir Horloger Raiguel Jeune in the small Swiss town of Saint-Imier. In 1833 he and two associates founded Comptoir Raiguel Jeune & Cie. In 1847 Agassiz became the sole owner. In 1852, Agassiz' nephew Ernest Francillon joined the company and in 1862 he took it over from his uncle. He renamed it Ancienne Maison Auguste Agassiz, Ernest Francillon, Successeur. In 1866, Francillon bought land near a place called Les Longines. Here he built a factory, in which the firm’s entire production was grouped under one roof. The
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
