Longines, A Slim Platinum and Diamond Openface Keyless Lever Watch with white gold chain Nickel

This is an Online Only Auction

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
Donnington Priory, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2JE
Saturday 12th July: 9am - 12:30pm; Monday 14th July: 9am - 5pm

Bloomsbury House, 24 Maddox Street, W1S 1PP
Tuesday 15th July: 9:30am - 5:30pm; Wednesday 16th July: 9:30am - 7:30pm

SPECIALIST IN CHARGE: Jonathan Darracott
Email: watches@theauctionroom.com
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7499 4406

Please note, buyer's premium is charged on the hammer price of all sold lots at 20% (+ VAT at 20%).

In this sale we have a wide spectrum of pieces on offer including watches from the 1700’s through to the modern day.

Wristwatches fall into the following categories:

• Wearable – lot 2: Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date, Stainless Steel Centre Seconds Automatic Bracelet Watch with Date, (est.: £1,800-2,200) and lot 3: Rolex Lady's Steel and Gold Automatic Centre Seconds Bracelet Watch with Date, (est.: £1,500-2,000)
• Classic - lot 11: Omega Gold Automatic Centre Seconds Wristwatch, (est.: £600-800) and lot 12: Omega Large Pink Gold Wristwatch, (est.: £1,00-1,500)
• Highly sought after - lot 4: International Watch Company Rare Stainless Steel Centre Seconds Black Dial Military Wristwatch, (est.: £3,800-4,800)
• Unusual - lot 18: Bulova Accutron Three Colour Gold Tuning Fork Bracelet Centre Seconds Watch, (est.: £800-1,200)

There is the opportunity to acquire some stunning decorative pocket watches, such as lot 33, an Unusual and Rare Small Gold and Enamel Pair Case Watch made for the Turkish Market, (est.: £9,000-10,000) and lot 49, a Rare and Unusual Silver and Niello Keyless Lever Hunting Case Decorative Watch depicting Lightbulbs, Gold Automobile and Baloor, (est.: £2,600-3,600); a technical item, such as lot 30, Thomas Yeates, a Rare and Unusual Gilt Consular Case Watch with Debaufre escapement, (est.: £2,200-3,200). For those looking for a pocket watch which is both technical and decorative a good example is lot 31, Berthoud, a Rare and Fine Gold Skeletonised Open-faced Verge Quarter Repeating Watch, (est.: £4,500-5,500). Representing the highest form of the watchmakers’ art is lot 53, Lange and Sohne, a First Quality Pink Gold Hunting Case Keyless Lever Watch, (est. £4,500-5,500). Lot 55 is an example of a pocket watch with unrivalled complications - a Fine Gold and Enamel Minute Repeating Chronograph Hunting Case Watch with Triple Date, (est.: £15,000-20,000).


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Please note that lots affected by these requirements are marked accordingly in the catalogue.