Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 286

Longines, case No. 33996. Produced in the 1930s. Fine, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Longines buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, lapidated lugs. D. Matte silver with inlaid pink gold Arabic numerals and dot indexes, sunk subsidiary "guilloché" dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation in blue Arabic numerals. Yellow gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 330, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 35 mm. Height 13 mm.