Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 14, 2017

LOT 423

LONGINES, 13ZN CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Longines, No. 5479994, case No. 6889701. Sold on December 14th, 1939 to Wirth, Longines agent for Switzerland. Very fine and rare, large, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, semi-instantaneous 30-minute register and tachometer. Accompanied by a Longines certificate of authenticity and a service invoice from Longines (under warranty until 2018).

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel, lapidated lugs, snap- on case back. TBrushed silver with applied pink gold arabic indexes, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and for the seconds, outermost blue tachometer scale. Pink gold alpha hands. Cal. 13ZN, rhodium plated, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Glucydur balance, self-compensating blued Breguet balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator.