Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 231

Longines Monopoussoir Yellow Gold Longines, ?Anti-Magnetique?, case No. 5211246. Made in 1933. Very fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with single-button chronograph, register and telemeter.

C. Four body, solid, polished, inclined bezel, hinged gold cuvette engraved with: ?Chronographe ?Compteur Longines, 10 Grands Prix, Anti-Magnetique?, snap-on case back.
D. Enamel white with painted black Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30 minute register, inner minutes/seconds track, inner red spiral tachometer scale and outermost red telemetre scale. Blued steel Breguet hands.
M. 15???, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Case, dial, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13mm.