Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 10, 2015

LOT 268

JAEGER-LECOULTRE UNIQUE TRAVELLER'S PRESENTATION TABLE CLOCK Jaeger-LeCoultre. Made as a special presentation piece, circa 1953. Fine and unique, Perspex, silvered and gilt metal, wood and stone-set, 8-day going table clock with visible movement and partial world map with longitudes and latitudes.

Rectangular, Perspex, 12 gilt-brass screw heads each engraved with a sign of the zodiac, blue Perspex back enclosing a cut-out partial world map of Europe, Africa and the Americas, a ship in full sial in the South Atlantic Ocean, outer border engraved with degrees of longitude and latitude, the Perspex engraved with the grid and compass points, some world cities highlighted with colored stones: London, Birmingham, Paris, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Francfurt, Basel, Zurich, Havana, Santa Domingo, Monrovia, Accra, Lagos and Port Harcourt, South America engraved "Herrn W Preiswerk Tissot zum 13 April 1953 von allen seinen Mitarbeiten am Nonnenweg". Inset within the case, chapter ring with applied gilt faceted hour indexes. Brushed gilt skeleton lozenge hands with white tips. Gilt-brass with linear wheel train, 15 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring. Perspex crystal signed. DIM. 30.5 x 26.5 x 12 cm. Hern W. Preiswerk Tisot was a specialist in tropical medicine based at the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel during the 1950s and 1960s. This clock was evidently specially made as a presentation piece recording his world travels during his work for the institute.