Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 429

LECOULTRE CHRONOGRAPH LeCoultre, Swiss. No.249659. Made in the 1960s. Very fine and unusual, 18K yellow gold round-button chronograph wristwatch.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, curved and faceted shoulders, inclined bezel, screw-down reverse with inner dust-cap. D. Silvered, with applied gilt faceted dot markers and 12 numeral, outer blue base 100 tachometer scale, inner black minute track with 5 minute numerals, subsidiary dials for running seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour registers. Gilt Dauphine hands. M. Cal.72, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet overcoil balance spring, shock-protection. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 31 mm. Thickness 9 mm.