Swiss 14 Carat gold pocket watch with 8 day movement Circa 1955

Gold lever watch with power reserve indication
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A very fine and extremely rare Swiss, 8 day going, 14 Carat pink gold, a keyless pocket watch with power reserve indication, circa 1955. Hinged pink gilt metal cuvette. Brushed silvered dial with applied pink gold faceted baton indexes, outer painted minute divisions, subsidiary seconds, power reserve indication at 12 o’clock. Pink gold dauphine hands.
A matte gilt, half plate movement, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bi metallic compensation balance, cut bi metallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator.
Dial, case and movement signed.
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Diameter: 50 mm
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Signed: Longines  Swiss
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The present watch is extremely beautiful, the pink gold case and the dial and hand combination with applied pink gold indexes and dauphine hands are usually only found on the highest grade watches of the great watch houses. This is only the second example of the Longines 8 day pocket watch, Cal. 19.41, to appear at auction and by far the most attractive of the two.
For a description of the Longines caliber 19.41 see “Les Mouvements de Montre de la Maison Longines”, Patrick Linder, 2007, p. 312-313.