Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 129

Chronograph Rattrapante Longines, Ernest Francillon, No. 0221, Ref. L4.654.6. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, pulsometer, off-center hours and a gold-plated Longines buckle. Accompanied by a wooden fitted box, Certificate of Origin, guarantee card and instruction manual. To be sold without reserve

C. Three body, solid, polished, hounds-tooth decorated band, reeded push-buttons and winding-crown, engraved portrait of Ernest Francillon - 1867 on the back, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. White with applied radial yellow gold Roman numerals, off-center dial for the hours and minutes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer pulsometer graduation for 30 pulsations. Yellow gold and black feuille hands. M. Cal. 668, rhodium plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. The winding-crown on the 10 is for start, stop, reunite and return to zero of the split-second hand. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm.