Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 18

Jaeger LeCoultre, "Futurematic". Produced in the 1950s. Fine, self-winding, 18K pink gold gentleman?s wristwatch with 40-hour power-reserve and back winder.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with screwed-down ring, stepped bezel, concave lugs.D. Champagne with applied pink gold dart indexes and outer radium-coated dots, sunk "guilloché" subsidiary dials for the seconds and the up-and-down indication. Radium-coated pink gold "dauphine" hands. M. Cal. 497/1, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 37 mm.