Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 09, 2026

LOT 130

LONGINES, SWITZERLAND, REF. 5824, OVERSIZED PILOT'S FLYBACK CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH WITH TWO DIALS, STAINLESS STEEL

CHF 20,000 - 40,000

HKD 200,000 - 398,000 / USD 25,400 - 51,000 / EUR 21,700 - 43,300 / JPY 4,040,000 - 8,070,000

A very rare and attractive stainless steel, manual wind oversized pilot’s single-button flyback chronograph wristwatch with central registers and two dials (white and black). Polished and brushed case, graduated revolving bezel, curved lugs, and large ball-shaped winding crown designed for use with gloves. Black or white dial with radium-coated Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds, outer minute track, outermost 1/5th-second scale, and 60-minute register. Radium-coated skeleton hands, with red for the register.


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Grading System
Grade:
Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched
Movement: 3-6*

Good

Slightly oxidized

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-10-01

Good

Patinated

HANDS Original

Brand Longines, Switzerland

Reference 5824

Year Sold on June 27th, 1947

Movement No. 7255445

Case No. 23473

Caliber Cal. 12.68Z (produced since 1939), rhodium plated, 18 jewels, bronze beryllium straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.

Diameter 47 mm.

Signature Dial, case and movement

Accessories Extract from the Archives, additional black dial

Notes

Longines Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present watch with reference number 5824 and mechanical movement cal. 12.68Z, and its subsequent sale on 8 August 1947 to Nederlandsche Horlogehende, at the time their agent for the Netherlands

Longines (founded in 1832) has a steady and close relationship with the world of aviation, since the beginning of the conquest of the skies, long way to 1919 when Longines became the official supplier of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). Later the manufacture produced the Weems System of Navigation (1927-1929) and the Lindbergh (1931), the two very first pilot’s wristwatches.

Originally sold with a black dial as stated by the extract form the archive, this watch is presented with an additional white dial. Up to our knowledge, the configuration with a white dial has never been yet auctioned. It is worth noticing, it was invoiced to the company's agent at the time Nederlandsche Horlogehandel or N.H. in Amsterdam, Holland. It is equipped with the caliber 12.68Z which is a vintage mechanical movement produced in the 1940s and 1950s. This caliber would have been presented to, former technical director, Alfred Pfister (1874-1951). In 1918, he joined the company's Board of Directors, becoming its Managing Director in 1927. During his career, he worked on reducing the thickness of movements and creating numerous avant-garde calibres and products, including watches for aviators.