Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 117

Jaeger-LeCoultre For Aston Martin Titanium Limited Series Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Aston Martin, Racing, 1000 Hours Control" No. 072/100, case No. 2514476, Ref. 192. T. 25. Made in a limited edition of 100 pieces in 2008. Fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, titanium PVD-coated wristwatch with pivoting case chronograph, registers, date and a titanium Jaeger LeCoultre double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, an original certificate, and an instruction booklet. To be sold without reserve

USD 5,000 - 7,000

CHF 5,000 - 7,000 / EUR 3,500 - 5,000

Sold: USD 17,500

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, inner pivoted case activating and stopping the chronograph by depressing the crystal at the top, return-to-zero function by depressing the crystal at the bottom, locking slide in the band, back with 10 screws, sapphire crystal. d. Bi-color black and silver with applied luminous Arabic numerals and baton markers, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions, half-moon apertures at 3 and 9 for the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date at 5, subsidiary seconds disc at 6 with the Aston Martin logo. Luminous steel hour and minute hands, red chronograph hand. m. Cal. 751B, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 41 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 14 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 1

As new

Movement: 1

As new

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

This watch was made in a limited edition of 100 pieces to celebrate Aston Martin racing's win at Le Mans in 2009, fifty years after the teams first win on the same track in 1959.