Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 224

Longines, No. 23363. Produced in the 1940s. Fine and unusual, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers and triple date. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, lapidated triangular lugs. D. Pink with applied steel pyramidal indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary sunk dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for the days of the month in blue Arabic numer-als, apertures for the days of the week and the months. Purple "Bâton" hands. M. Cal. 13''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shockabsorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Height 13 mm.