Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 243

Longines FlyBac k Chronograph Cornes De Vache Longines, movement No. 7700965, case No. 23505 29. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, stainless steel wristwatch, square button fly-back chronograph, register and tachometer. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, ?Cornes de Vache? lugs, rounded bezel, snap-on case back. D. Two-tone matte silver with applied pink gold faceted and dot indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30 minute register, outer 1/5th of a second/minute track, outermost blue tachometer scale. Pink gold feuille hands. M. 13???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 12 mm. From the Collection of a Swiss Gentleman