Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 153

LeCoultre, Automatic, case No. 80017. Made in the late 1950s. Fine and rare, square, center seconds, self-winding, 14K yellow gold wristwatch. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, straight lugs, domed crystal. D. Two-tone silver with printed Arabic quarters and applied yellow gold baton indexes, concentric minute/seconds track. Yellow gold epee hands. M. Cal. 493, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 27 x 37 mm. Thickness 11 mm.