Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 298

Longines, "Aviator?s Watch", movement No. 5575105, case No. 5575076. Made in the 1930s. Fine and rare, large, stainless steel ?Staybrite? wristwatch with a stainless steel Longines deployant clasp.

c. Three-body, polished, flat bezel, concave lugs, engraved snap-on case back. D. Off-white with painted black baton indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary dial for the seconds, outer minutes and fifths of a second track with Arabic five minute numerals. Blued steel baton hands. m. Cal. 15.94, gilt, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm.