Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 201

Yellow Gold Jaeger-LeCoultre, Reverso "Memory," Ref. 255.1.82. Made in the 1990s. Fine, rectangular, 18K yellow gold reversible wristwatch with two dials, permanent minute register with fly-back mechanism, 50-hour autonomy and an 18K yellow gold Jaeger-LeCoultre link bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Five-body, solid, polished and brushed, ridged bezel, sapphire crystals. D. On one side, guilloché silver with painted Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary seconds dial. Luminous blued steel lozenge hands. On the other side, black with painted white minute track and 5-minute Arabic markers, luminous quarters, guilloché at the center. Luminous white lozenge hand for the 60-minute fly-back function activated by a push-button on the band. M. Cal. 862, tonneau-shaped, copper-colored, fausses cotes decoration, 23 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 23 x 38 mm. Thickness 10 mm. Approx. overall length 185 mm.