Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

Tutima. A military nickel-plated brass flyback chronograph pilots wristwatch, circa 1940.
Movement: manual winding, 21 jewels, no. 203898.
Dial: black, Arabic numerals, subsidiary dial for constant and 30-minute register.
Case: nickel-plated brass, screw-down back, b-directional rotating bezel, red reset chronograph button, no. 203898.
Signed: dial.
Dimensions: diameter 38.6mm.
£1,500-£2,000

Provenance: From the late Bob Culling collection

Produced in Glashutte, the centre of German watch making, the Tutima chronograph wristwatch (identified by the “T” trademark) was primarily used by the Luftwaffe (The German Airforce).
Z. M. Wesolowski, Military Timepieces 1880-1990, p.150.