The Longitude at the Eve of the Third...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 23, 1999

LOT 123

Jaeger LeCoultre, Reverso Chronographe Rétrograde, No. 351/500, 1990's.Extremely fine and rare, rectangular, double face, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and date, with 44 hours power reserve and 18K pink gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and certificate.

CHF 24,000 - 28,000

Sold: CHF 29,900

C. three body, massive, polished, reeded bezel, transparent back. D. "guilloché" silver with painted Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, aperture for the date, chronograph start/stop display with, on the back, the seconds and the retrograde 30 minutes register ring dials. "Bâton" blued steel hands.M. 9''', gilt copper coloured, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 26 x 42 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: * 2
Dial: 2 - 01

Notes

This watch is part of a limited edition of 500 examples produced in the 1990's.After having produced the famous Reverso in the version Tourbillon, Minute Repeating and Dual Time, it took Jaeger LeCoultre two years' studies to realize this Chronographe Rétrograde. The complexity of this model constrained the creators to use a double dial: one for the usual reading of the time, the date and the start-and-stop chronograph indication, the other one for the chronograph and register functions.