Hopping this information is convenient to you, I remain at your entire disposal for any additional information you may require. It was invoiced to Messrs.’ Perusset, who were for many years our agent for Argentina, on. It is fitted with a Longines manufacture caliber 18.50 that was first produced in 1889.
The serial number 2'422'066 identifies a hunter pocket watch in silver 0.900. Thank you for your email and interest in Longines watches.įollowing your request, I have the pleasure to give you here below the information I found in our old hand-written registers : I wrote to Ms Jennifer as suggested and took her permission to quote her reply verbatim on this site. My God Peter, where were you all the while ? What the mark on the left hand side of the case is I cannot fathom out and I daresay we will never know.Īt the end of the day you have a very nice watch made by a respectable manufacturer - enjoy it.Īpologies Jerry - was busy typing this out and removing typo's and posted it without realising you had posted a reply. The case bears (no pun intended) Swiss hallmarking (not British) in the form of the bear rampant and has a silver content of 90%. So all in all you have a movement from 1909 - 1911 in a case manufactured post 1906. The other scenario to that of course is that cases made before that date were held in stock and susbsequently used with that inscription applied - probably unlikely but the posssibility is there. That fits in nicely with your case - even though your movement appears to have been recased as Graham pointed out earlier in this thread - in that the case, in theory, would have been made either in or after 1906 otherwise the accolades of winning four prizes could not have appeared. It dates (approximately) the manufacture of your movement to between 19. POM have a look at this link which I found using a search engine (Google is your friend on this occasion)