Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 226

?Reverso 8 Days? Jaeger LeCoultre, ?Grande Réserve?, 8 Jours, No. 240244. Made circa 2000. Very fine and rare, astronomic, extralarge, thick, rectangular, reversible, 18K pink gold gentleman?s wristwatch with 8- day power reserve indication aperture on the reverse and an 18K pink gold Jaeger LeCoultre deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded bezel, sapphire crystal. D. "Guilloché" matte solid silver with painted black Arabic numerals on an outer plain reserve, "guilloché" subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel "Epée" hands. M. Cal. 874, in 18K pink gold, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, duo-spring-barrels, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 29 x 47 mm. Thickness 12 mm.