Alcock & Brown. A wristwatch presented to Captain Alcock on 17 July 1919, the silver case with black Arabic numerals, with button and sprung cover enclosing black enamel dial, illuminated hands and Arabic numerals with subsidiary seconds hand, the screw backplate engraved 'Presented to Sir John W. Alcock The 1st Atlantic Pilot by The City & Corporation of Manchester July 17 1919', with large winding crown and lugs to secure strap, case approximately 35mm diameter together with an original Daily Mirror newspaper dated 16 June 1919, the front-page headline reading 'Britain's Magnificent Atlantic Air Triumph' (Qty: 2) Provenance: From the estate of John William Dunne, Pioneer Aviator, see lot 68. On the 14th June 1919 Captain John Alcock, D.S.C. and his navigator Lieutenant Arthur W. Brown became the first aviators to cross the Atlantic. They flew the "Vickers-Vimy Rolls", a modified Great War Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. Winston Churchill presented them with the Daily Mail prize for 'crossing the Atlantic in less than 72 consecutive hours'. They were both knighted at Windsor Castle by King George V.
Alcock & Brown. A wristwatch presented to Captain Alcock on 17 July 1919, the silver case with black Arabic numerals, with button and sprung cover enclosing black enamel dial, illuminated hands and Arabic numerals with subsidiary seconds hand, the screw backplate engraved 'Presented to Sir John W. Alcock The 1st Atlantic Pilot by The City & Corporation of Manchester July 17 1919', with large winding crown and lugs to secure strap, case approximately 35mm diameter together with an original Daily Mirror newspaper dated 16 June 1919, the front-page headline reading 'Britain's Magnificent Atlantic Air Triumph' (Qty: 2) Provenance: From the estate of John William Dunne, Pioneer Aviator, see lot 68. On the 14th June 1919 Captain John Alcock, D.S.C. and his navigator Lieutenant Arthur W. Brown became the first aviators to cross the Atlantic. They flew the "Vickers-Vimy Rolls", a modified Great War Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. Winston Churchill presented them with the Daily Mail prize for 'crossing the Atlantic in less than 72 consecutive hours'. They were both knighted at Windsor Castle by King George V.
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