Important Collectors’ Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 20

?Reverso Geógraphique? Jaeger LeCoultre, ?Reverso Geógraphique?, Ref. 270. 258, No. 241/500. Made in a limited edition of 500 examples in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, world-time, rectangular, two time zone, double-face reversible 18K pink gold wristwatch with moon phases, day and night and GMT indications, and 18K pink gold Jaeger LeCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by box and certificate.

C. Five-body, massive, polished and brushed, reeded bezel, reversible. D. On one side, ?guilloché? silver with painted black Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, inner minute track, subsidiary seconds dial, aperture for the moon phases ?night and day?. Blued steel ?épée? hands. On the other side, ?guilloché? black off-center chapter ring with white Arabic numerals, on the 8, aperture for the GMT + or - indication, on the 4, aperture for the day/night indication, at the bottom, two individual apertures showing the names of 12 GMT cities, and 12 other GMT + cities. By means of a pusher on the band, the hours may be forwarded independently of the other dial by means of another square button on the band, the hours and the places may be adjusted. Luminous ?lozenge? hands. M. Cal JLC 858, manual winding, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating flat balance spring, shock absorber. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 26 x 42 mm. Thickness 10 mm.