Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 413

JaeGer-Lecoultre Watch For Hermès TamBour Jaeger-LeCoultre, movement No. 628867, case No. 59901. Made for Hermès, circa 1950. Very fine and extremely rare, stainless steel ?Staybrite?, purse/desk watch with concealed dial and tambour shutter with folding strut. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, rectangular, brushed and polished, curved ends, sliding tambour shutter also forming a strut for standing, hinged inner polished and brushed case pivoted to the outer case, inclined bezel, snap-on back. D. Matte silver with applied pink gold dot indexes and Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Pink gold epee hands. M. 8???, tonneau-shaped, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Dim. 46 x 28 x 12.5 mm.