Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, May 10, 2020

LOT 108

Longines - Pocket watch, minute-repeater; 18K yellow gold

HKD 30,000 - 40,000

USD 3,900 - 5,200 / EUR 3,600 - 4,800 / CHF 3,900 - 5,200

Sold: HKD 40,000

18K yellow gold, open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and one horological complication: • Minute-repeater on two steel gongs (activated by the slide at 9 o’clock). 24-hour white enamel dial with Breguet numerals (1-12) and red Arabic outer numerals (13-0). Case-back engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the cypher “J C”. Inside case-back engraved with the date “1932”.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3-6 *

Good
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Longines, Saint-Imier

Year circa 1914

Movement No. unnumbered

Case No. 2 437 724

Material 18K yellow gold

Diameter 52.8 mm.

Caliber 19/20, gold screwed-chaton (setting) on the central wheel, lever escapement

Signature dial, case and movement

Accessories Extract from the Archives

Notes

The Extract from the Archives, dated December 20, 2019, mentioned that this watch was invoiced on July 22, 1914, to the Longines agent, Maison Perusset, France.