Important Watches and Wristwatches
Hong Kong, Hotel Furama, May 28, 1989
Longines Watch Co., Swiss, circa 1925.
Good 14-carat gold and enamel o c t o g o n a l 'Art D é c o ' dress watch. Massive ' v a r i é ' case, decorated overall with ' champlevé' scrolls over a black enamelled background, engine turned back. Gold engine turned dial with Arabic numerals and subsidiary seconds on a mat reserve, further scrolled decoration. Blued steel 'spade' hands. Rhodium plated 17.89 M caliber keyless movement 'faussescôtes' decoration, 21 jewels, screwed setting, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance-spring adjusted in five positions with unusual micrometric index. In very good condition. Diam. 48 mm.