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Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 218

?Aviator?s Fly-back Chronograph? Longines, No. 7367841, case No. 23473, Ref. 139. Made in the 1940s. Fine and very rare, stainless steel ?Staybrite? aviator?s wristwatch with independent single round button fly-back chronograph with central minute counter.

C. Four-body, polished, revolving reeded bezel inside engraved with 60-minute graduation, concave lugs, ballshaped crown. D. Black with radium-coated Arabic numerals, outer minute and 1/5th seconds graduation, subsidiary seconds dial. Steel radium-coated ?bâton? hands, red central hand for the elapsed minutes. M. Cal. 12.68 Z, rhodium-plated, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm. Thickness 11 mm.