Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 72

JAEGER-LECOULTRE REVERSO GEÓGRAPHIQUE Jaeger-LeCoultre, ?Reverso Geógraphique?, No. 237/500, Ref. 270.2.58. Made in a limited edition of 500 examples in 1999. Very fine and rare, world time, rectangular, two time zone, double-face reversible 18K pink gold wristwatch with moon phases, day and night and GMT indications, and 18K pink gold Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by an Extract from the Archives. To be sold without reserve

C. Five-body, solid, polished, reeded bezel. D. On one side, two-tone guilloché silver with painted black Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, inner minute track, subsidiary seconds dial, moon phases and day/night aperture. Blued steel épée hands. On the other, two-tone guilloché black off-center chapter ring with white Arabic numerals, at 8 aperture for the GMT + or - indication, at 4 aperture for the day/night indication, at the bottom, two individual apertures with the names of 12 GMT cities, and 12 other GMT + cities. A pusher on the band forwards the hours independently of the other dial; a square button on the band adjusts the hours and places. Luminous gold lozenge hands. M. Cal 858, manual winding, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self compensating fl at balance spring, shock absorber. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 26 x 42 mm. Thickness 10 mm.