Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 479

JAEGER-LECOULTRE EXTREME WORLD CHRONOGRAPH Jaeger-LeCoultre, ?Master Compressor, Extreme World Chronograph?, case No. 1215, Ref. 150.8.22. Made circa 2005. Very fine, oversized, self-winding water-resistant, world-time stainless steel and titanium wristwatch with two round button chronograph, registers, 24-hour indication for the diurnal and nocturnal hours, date, integrated system for interchangeable bracelet and a stainless steel Jaeger LeCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Jaeger Le-Coultre box and Certificate (blank).

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back with four screws, winding crown and chronograph buttons with twist-lock guards, crown at 10 for setting the world time dial, inclined bezel, sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous dart indexes and Arabic half-hour numerals, outer fifths of a second/minute divisions, subsidiary dials for the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, apertures for the date and the seconds, silver and white rotating 24-hour ring for the diurnal and nocturnal hours, outer world time dial marked with the names of 23 cities. Luminous alpha hands. M. Cal. 752, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 41 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorbers. Dial, movement and case signed. DIAM. 46 mm. THICKNESS 16 mm.