Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 11, 2009

LOT 278

Military Pilot?s Watch Tutima Glashutte, No. 2206093. Made circa 1940. Very fine and rare, nickel-brass and stainless steel aviator?s wristwatch with rotating bezel, round button chronograph and register.

C. Three-body, brushed, bi-directional graduated reeded bezel with red marker, straight curved lugs, screw-down steel case back, red painted start/stop chronograph button. 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???, rhodiumplated, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed Glashütte. Diam. 38.6 mm. Thickness 14 mm.