Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 23

"Medical Chronograph" Longines, No. 8922185, Ref. 5967. Made in the late 1950s. Fine, large, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and pulsometer.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, inclined bezel, lapidated lugs. D. Champagne with painted Arabic numerals, outer minutes and 1/5th seconds track with Arabic 5-minute/seconds markers, outer black pulsometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Pink gold "alpha" hands. M. Cal. 30 CH, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 18 jewels, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.