Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 2

Jaeger Lecoultre "Marina Bees-BLack" Atmos CLock Jaeger-LeCoultre, ?Plexi Noir Bees?, Ref. 5807. Made in the 1970s. Fine and unusual rectangular gilt brass and perspex (lucite) mantel clock with ?bee? panels, wound by barometric pressure changes To be sold without reserve

USD 2,000 - 3,000

CHF 2,000 - 3,000 / EUR 1,400 - 2,200

Sold: USD 2,500

C. Glazed on 4 sides and on the top with perspex (lucite) panels with gilt caravelles and mountain views, the front panel with aperture to view the pendulum, stepped plinth base. D. White with applied gilt brass faceted dart indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals. Gilt brass dauphine hands with black tips. M. Cal. 526-5, gilt brass, vacuum chamber winding the going barrel, lever escapement driven by annular tension pendulum, locking screw in the base below the pendulum disc. Case, movement and vacuum signed, Lucite panel signed Marina. Dim. 23 x 18 x 14 cm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

This is the first time Antiquorum has offered an example of the Atmos "bees" in a black case. For a similar "white bees" version see lot 1 in Antiquorum New York September 17, 2009.