Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 19, 2012

LOT 117

JAEGER-LECOULTRE REF. 270.2.58 REVERSO GEÓGRAPHIQUE PINK GOLD Jaeger-LeCoultre, Reverso Geógraphique, No. 303/500, 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 dial reversible 18K pink gold wristwatch with moon phases, day and night and GMT indications, and 18K pink gold Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by a box and certificate.

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.