Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 28, 2014

LOT 338

LONGINES HONOUR AND GLORY OLYMPIC GAMES Longines, Swiss, Wristwatch with matching No.50918268. Made in 1999. Released in a set of 600 pieces in 1999 to celebrate 120 years of timing by Longines. Stainless steel self-winding, water- resistant chronograph wristwatch with vernier scale, day, date, instantaneous 30 minute and 12 hour registers, with stainless steel buckle. Accompanied by a longines world service booklet, certificate of authenticity, inter national guarantee and 2 instructions.

Three-body, polished, glazed reverse, stepped concave bezel, round-button pushers. Satin silvered with black Arabic numerals, outer minutes, subsidiary seconds, 12 hours register, chequered subsidiary 30 minute register, aperture for the day and date, raised outer matt-black 60 second scale. Black baton hands, orange chronograph hand with yellow vernier scale. Cal.674, (base 7750) rhodium plated with oeil-de-perdix decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, flat self-compensating balance spring, monometallic balance, shock-protected.