Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 374

Pink Gold Reverso Geógraphique Jaeger-LeCoultre, ?Reverso Geógraphique?, Ref. 270. 2.58, No. 413/500. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces in the late 1990s. Very fine and rare, rectangular, world-time, twotime- zone, double-face reversible, 18K pink gold wristwatch with moon phases, day/night and GMT indications and an 18K pink gold Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by box, certificate and instruction booklet.

C. Five-body, solid, polished and brushed, reeded bezel, sapphire crystls. D. On one side, guilloche 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, black guilloche off-center chapter ring with white Arabic numerals, at 8, aperture for the GMT + or - indication, at 4, aperture for the day/night indication, at the bottom, 2 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 another square button on the band the hours and locations may be adjusted. Luminous lozenge hands. M. Cal JLC 858, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 26 x 42 mm. Thickness 10 mm. Property of Various Owners