106th Auction
2022/5/21
Lot 175
International Watch Co.
A rare deck watch, used in the English Electric Lightening Fighter as a Royal Air Force machine gun camera watch
Sold
estimated
2.500—5.000 €
Price realized
5.600 €
specific features
Case
Steel, screw back with "broad arrow" and military engraving: "10AF/807 N.I 142", anti-magnetic protection cap.
Dial
Silvered.
Movement
Manual.
Cal.89
Diam.35 mm
Circa1950
Ctry.Switzerland
Wt.64 g
These very rare watches were used by the Royal Air Force during the Cold War and by the Arab Air Forces from the late 1950s onwards on the English Electric Lightening fighter.
Only about 500 are believed to have been produced, with only about 200 in existence today.