Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 419

JAEGER-LECOULTRE REF. 140.8.80.S, MASTER PERPETUAL Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Master Perpetual", No. 061, Ref. 140.8.80.S. Made in the 1990's. Very fine and elegant, center seconds, self-winding, water resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year indication, age and phases of the moon and a stainless steel Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, transparent case back secured by 4 screws, concave lugs, corrector on the band, sapphire crystals. D. Black with applied steel dart and luminous dot indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, the days of the week, the months, sector for the age of the moon and aperture for the moon phases, aperture for the leap year and red and white warning to prevent date change at certain hours. Steel dauphine hands. M. Cal. 889/440/2, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil de perdrix decoration, 50 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, 22K gold rotor segment, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 9.5 mm.