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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2008

LOT 246

Chronographe Compteur ? Repetition a Minutes Longines, "Chronographe-Compteur Repetition a Minutes", No. 2962800. Made circa 1910. Fine, hunting-cased, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register.

C. Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, button at 2 o?clock for the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette decorated with Grand Prix medals. D. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second divisions and Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Gold spade hands. M. 19''', frosted gilt, 36 jewels, straightline lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 55 mm.