23,600 CHF
“Chronograph – Central Minute Register” Longines, No. 6964577, case No. 23086, Ref. 177. Made circa 1945. Fine and rare, large, stainless steel gentleman’s wristwatch with chronograph, 12- hour register and red central progressive minute register hand. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, concave lugs, large winding-crown. Brushed silver with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second scale, subsidiary seconds at 9, 12-hour register at 3. Luminous "Skeleton" hands, red hand for the minute register. Cal. 137N, 13’’’, rhodium-plated, “fausses cotes” decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, beryllium monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Notes Longines wristwatches with a central progressive minute register hand are very rare, especially on civilian watches. They were used mainly on watches for military use such as the “retour en vol” pilots watches.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
