Rare Swiss platinum, diamond set lever watch Circa 1921

Kenmerk: SB0387
Diameter: 41 mm

Estimate: € 12.500 - 25.000
Price sold: € 20.100

Fine, rare platinum, enamel, diamond and synthetic ruby set lever by Longines
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A fine and rare Swiss platinum, enamel, diamond and synthetic ruby set open faced pocket watch, circa 1921. Retailed by Diener Hermanons, Mexico City. 10.85 ligne nickel lever movement, 17 jewels. En grisaille enamel dial in crimson depicting a classical maiden atop a lion, white enamel chapter ring with stylized Arabic numerals. Diamond set bezel with twelve faceted synthetic ruby set triangular indexes, band engraved with Greek key motif, snap back. Movement and case signed. With original ruby and diamond set chain. Approximate total diamond weight 4.65 cts.
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Diameter: 41 mm
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Signed: Longines

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With original fitted presentation box from Diener Hermanos, Mexico City. The illustrious boutique was known to have imported some of the finest Swiss watches for the elite of Mexico City, including the present lot from Longines. Longines confirms production of this watch and its sale to Messrs Zivy, the firm’s agent in Mexico on June 9th, 1921. The present watch was a gift from the President of Mexico to a prominent Mexican politician at the time of the founding of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional by Plutarco Elias Calles in the late 1970s.

Signed: Longines