Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 6

LeCoultre, Swiss. No. 142570. Made in the 1960s. Very fine, stainless steel waterproof round-button chronograph wristwatch with a later Jaeger Lecoultre steel buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, curved and faceted shoulders, inclined bezel, screw-down reverse with inner dust-cap. D. Silver, with applied steel arabic indexes, outer base 1000 tachometer scale, inner minute track with 5 minute numerals, subsidiary dials for constant seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour registers. Luminous steel alpha hands. M. Cal. 839H, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating Breguet overcoil balance spring, shock-protection. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 10 mm