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Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 198

Cal. 13ZN, Central Minute Register Longines, movement No. 6940651, No. 287, Ref. No. 23086. Sold on September 23th, 1946 to Wittnauer, The Longines American agent. Fine and rare, large, water resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with chronograph, 12-hour register and red central progressive minute register hand.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screw-down case back, concave lugs with underside numbered 287. D. Silvered, with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second scale, subsidiary seconds dial for constant seconds and 12-hour register. Luminous blued steel skeleton hands, red central minute register hand. M. Cal. 13ZN, 13???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 14 mm.