Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 14, 2011

LOT 125

STOWA - B-UHR - WORLD WAR II - GERMAN AIR FORCE (LUFTWAFFE) Stowa, Assembled by Walter Storz, Pforzheim, No. 6301, Instrument No. 127. Made in 1940. Fine, oversized, anti-corrosion matte nickel military pilot?s wristwatch with indirect center seconds and the original aviator?s very long leather strap.

C. Three-body, matte gray, inclined bezel, concave lugs, large winding crown, snap-on case back, band engraved ?FL 23883.? D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer minute/seconds division. Luminous blued steel lozenge hands. M. Cal. 42 mm, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 20 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator. Case and movement signed Stowa. Diam. 55 mm. Thickness 19 mm.