Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 354

Jaeger, "Chronograph", case No. 89105. Made in the 1940s. Fine, rare and large, 18K yellow gold wristwatch, with officer case and square button chronograph, registers, telemeter and tachometer with an 18K yellow gold Jaeger LeCoultre buckle. Accompanied by a Jaeger LeCoultre box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, inverted bezel, straight curved lugs, snap-on case back. D. Matte silver with painted black baton indexes and Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour register, inner 1/5 seconds/ minute divisions, outer telemeter scale, outermost tachometer scale. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 287, rhodium plated, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm.