Lot 164

Longines

A rare, highly attractive, rose gold vintage flyback wrist chronograph

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This marvellous vintage classic comes in a rare rose gold case with gently curved, bevelled lugs and a wide, downward-sloping bezel. The charmingly aged dial features applied, rose gold indexes and Arabic numerals as well as beautiful rose gold leaf hands. The colours of the two outer scales – a blue tachymeter scale and a red telemeter scale with rare kilometre indication – present an exciting contrast to the matured champagne-coloured dial. The watch is fitted with the legendary calibre 30CH, which is considered one of the best and most beautiful chronograph movements ever. It was introduced in 1947 as successor of the fabulous calibre 13ZN, which was the first wrist flyback chronograph dating from 1936.