Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 23

Automatic, Power Reserve LeCoultre, Automatic, Power Reserve, case No. 53000917, Ref. 8686/86. Made in the 1950s. Fine, center-seconds, self-winding, gold-plated wristwatch with 40-hour power reserve. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished, rounded band, cylindrical lugs. D. Champagne with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and round indexes, aperture for the up-and-down indication at 12. Yellow gold épée hands. M. Cal. 481, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 12 mm.