Important Watches, Collector's Wristw...

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Oct 13, 2001

LOT 178

Longines, No. 4223671. Delivered on October 28, 1926.Fine sterling silver gentleman's wristwatch with single button chronograph on the crown and register.

C. four-body solid, polished, hinged case back, silver cuvette, rounded bezel, straight lugs. D. matte silver with radium-coated Arabic numerals, auxiliary "guilloché" seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer fifths of second scale. "Skeleton" radium-coated hands. M. Cal. 1333, gilt brass, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, the coaxial single button on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return to zero functions of te chronograph.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 35 mm.