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

CHF 4,000 - 6,000

USD 3,700 - 5,500 / EUR 2,500 - 3,800

Sold: CHF 1,560

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.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good

Case: 4

Fair

Movement: 4*

Fair

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

A similar watch is illustrated in ?Military Timepieces? by Konrad Knirim, pp. 365-372.