Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, May 10, 2015
LOT 81
LONGINES MINUTE REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Longines, "Répétition à Minutes Chronographe", No. 31977. Made circa 1910. Fine, large, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold, hunting cased pocket watch with chronograph.
CHF 4,000 - 6,000
HKD 32,000 - 49,000 / USD 4,200 - 6,300
Sold: CHF 5,750
Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, button in the band at 12 for the start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the prize medals. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second divisions with five-second numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 21''', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance- spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-79-01 |
Good ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Outer overglaze HANDS Original |