Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 86

?Chronographe Rétrograde" Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Reverso - Chronographe Rétrograde". Made in the 1990s. Very fine, rectangular, double face, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, date and a stainless steel Jaeger- LeCoultre link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate and setting pin.

C. Three-body, polished, ridged bezel, sapphire crystals. D. Anthracite with central check pattern design and luminous Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, aperture for the date at 6, chronograph start/stop display at 7. Luminous steel "lozenge" hands. Anthracite back repeating the front decoration, brushed steel ring dials for the seconds and the retrograde 30-minute register. Luminous hands. M. Cal. 9 ''', copper-colored, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, selfcompensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 28 x 43 mm. Thickness: 12 mm.