Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 09, 2009

LOT 178

Longines Single Button Chronograph Longines, 2978469. Made circa 1925. Fine and rare, sterling silver wristwatch with single button chronograph on the crown and register.

C. Four-body, solid, polished, hinged case back, silver cuvette, rounded bezel, straight lugs, screwed bars. D. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds red Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minutes register. Blue steel epee hands. M. Cal. 1333, gilt brass, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, the coaxial single button on the winding crown is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 12 mm.