Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 79

LECOULTRE CHRONOGRAPH LeCoultre, Swiss. No.301115. Made in the 1960s. Very fine and unusual, stainless steel 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. Black, with applied baton indexes, outer base 1000 tachometer scale, inner minute track with 5 minute numerals, subsidiary dials for running seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour registers. Silver 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