Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 45

Pilot?s Watch Tutima Glashutte, ?Pilot?s Watch?, movement and case No. 214559. Made circa 1942. Very fine and rare, nickel-brass and stainless steel aviator?s wristwatch with ?retour en vol? round button chronograph and register. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bi-directional graduated reeded bezel, straight curved lugs, screwed-down case back. D. Matte black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, outer minute and 1/5th seconds track. Luminous steel skeleton hands. M. 15???, rhodium-plated, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed Glashütte. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm.