Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 09, 2009

LOT 183

Longines ?Medical Chronograph? Longines, No. 0115540, Ref. 7414-10. Made circa 1965. Fine and rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and pulsometer.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, lapidated lugs. D. Brushed silver with applied faceted yellow gold baton indexes, outer 1/5th second track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, most outer blue painted pulsometer scale, subsidiary dials for seconds and 30-minute register. Yellow gold faceted baton hands. M. Cal. 530, rhodium-plated, 18 jewels, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm.