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Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 460

Yellow Gold Memovox World Time LeCoultre, "Memovox", Automatic. Made in the 1950s. Fine, center-seconds, self-winding, 14K yellow gold World Time wristwatch with date, alarm, 2 crowns and an 18K pink gold Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, flat bezel, lapidated lugs, the crown at 2 activates the central revolving alarm and the World Time dial. D. Two-tone brushed silver with applied gold indexes, at the center, revolving dial with the name of 24 cities in the world, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. K825, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, fausses cotes decoration, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.