Posting this, then off to buy lottery tickets. http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/watches-sale-l17053/lot.160.html Incidentally I have a similar one, in stainless, with serial number 25 higher. Cheers
Oh wow... Place your bets gentlemen, I'm going to guess 200k quid though thats a total stab in the dark.
I edited the title of this thread as the caliber designation listed by Sotheby's is wrong. The four digit caliber names as in 2310 only came into use later. These early ones were referred to as CH27-C12 (C12 for 12h chronograph register). Also the later four digit caliber code for the watch in question would be 2510. The 2310 has two registers (as for Omega 320) while the 2510 has got also the 12h register as in Omega 321.
Spoke to the watch guy at Sotheby's so they have also updated their description. Sensing they also was highly interested in where it would go. Estimate is plain silly IMO. Unfortunately. Being a huge fan of Lemania, and an admirer of Churchill, I would consider paying estimate. 10x estimate is out of my league. Cheers.
You think? Me think that that is a piece for you first a foremost I prefer the younger specimens, and anyhow not near the wealth needed in order to compete for that one.
I've got one, 25 numbers later in production. SS and not 18k. That will have to do for a simple man from the country side.
It is well documented in Churchill biographies that WSC used a pocket watch throughout his life. His earliest were gifts from his father Randolph Churchill and the pocket watch he used throughout his later years, including his years as Prime Minister during WWII and the early 1950's was a large Gold Breguet that he nicknamed the "Turnip" . I believe the "Turnip" is still in possession of the Churchill family trusts WSC was presented with many many gifts over the course of his lifetime but remained true to his privileged Victorian era upbringing. He never prepared his own bath or cooked for himself, rarely drove a car but was an excellent horseman and he never wore a wristwatch.
Or so the story goes. The man had many interests. Bricklaying was one of a not so very Victorian noblemans ones. https://www.google.no/amp/s/www.exp.../The-other-lives-of-Sir-Winston-Churchill/amp To say the man never wore a wristwatch is rather bombastic isn't it!? If there is something I've learned from life is that the number of absolutes are fewer than you might think.
Remarkable, he strapped his Breguet pocketwatch onto his wrist, and it looks small too! What does that say about the size of his wrist??
