Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 293

LONGINES ESCULAPE CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Longines, ''Grand Prix Paris 1900 Chronographe'', case No.2086591. Made circa 1920s. Fine and rare, keyless, 18K yellow gold, hunting cased pocket watch. Accompanied by fitted box.

Four-body, bassine, solid, the front cover decorated with Esculape, co-axial button at 12 o'clock for start/ stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with "Grand Prix Paris 1900" and various Longines Grand Prix award medals. White enamel painted with black Roman numerals, outer minutes track with every five Arabic numerals in red, outermost red scale to 30 pulsations, sunk subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Pink gold Spade hands. Cal.19.73N, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decorations, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance with screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator.