Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 65

LeCoultre, movement No. 631318, caseNo. 8136427.Made circa 1949. Very fine and rare, rectangular, 10K yellow gold-filled wristwatch with triple date and moon phases. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, black engraved graduation on the bezel, curved lugs, snap-on case back, correctors on the band. D. Two-tone silver with inner minute track, subsidiary dial for the seconds, outer painted blue Arabic numerals for the days of the month, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Blued steel épée hands, red arrow for the date. M. Cal. 486/AW, tonneau-shaped, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating blued Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 24 x 31 mm. Thickness 10 mm.