273 Longines Very Rare and Catching 13.33 Flyback Chronograph Wristwatch in Yellow Gold, With Enamel Dial and Extract from Archives

Estimate: € 4,000 –⁠ 8,000

Sold € 9,100

Model: Chronograph Fly-Back
Case Material: Yellow Gold
Bracelet Material: Leather Strap
Year: 1931
Movement: Manual
Caliber: 13.33Z
Case N°: 4869957
Dimensions: 34 mm
Signed: Dial, movement and case
Accessories: Extract from Archives

The Longines here offered is powered by the famous caliber 13.33, the first wristwatch chronograph movement ever produced by Longines in 1913. The case has a three body composition with flat bezel, concave lugs and snap on back in full yellow gold genuinely preserved. The dial is in untouched enamel with painted black arabic indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, inner 1/5th seconds track, outer red pulsation scales and blue steel Breguet hands. Accompanied by the Longines Extract from the Archives confirming case, movement, production and subsequent sale on 22 January 1931 to the company Ostersetzer, which was at that time the Longines agent in Italy.