Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 25

Longines, "Chronograph", No. 8441486, Ref. 6234. Made in the late 1950s. Fine, large, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, inclined bezel, straight lugs. D. Matte silver with pink gold Arabic numerals and dart indexes, outer minutes and 1/5th seconds track with Arabic 5-minute/ seconds markers, outer tachometer and telemeter graduations, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 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.