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Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue @ 45th Street, Dec 04, 2002

LOT 305

Jaeger LeCoultre Automatic, "Calen-drier Perpétuel, Grand Reveil". Pro-duced in the 1990's.Very fine, large, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gentleman's wristwatch with 44 hours autonomy, perpetual calendar, moon phases, mechanical alarm on a bronze bell, 24 hours indication, three crowns and an 18K yellow gold Jaeger LeCoultre buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. two-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 titanium screws, stepped bezel, fluted and curved lugs. Alarm winding-crown on the 2, time-setting and winding-crowns on the 4, and on the 8, push-button for quick adjustment of the calendar. D. white with applied gold tritium-coated indexes, auxiliary dials for the days of the month, the week, the months and the 24 hours in red numbers, apertures for the leap year in two digits on the 1 and the moon phases on the 6. "Skeleton" blued steel hands, "Bton" gold hand with a red arrow for the alarm. M. Cal. 919, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 34 jewels, lever esca-pement, monometallic balance, 4 adjustments, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, ball-bearing rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 41 mm.