Important Collectors’ Wristwatches,Po...

New York, Mar 23, 2005

LOT 48

Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Calendrier Perpétuel, Le Grand Réveil,? No. 0787, Ref. 180.1.99. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, large, astronomic, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wrist-watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, mechanical alarm on a bronze bell, 24-hour indication, 3 crowns and an 18K yellow gold Jaeger-LeCoultre buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, case back with six titanium screws,stepped bezel, fluted and curved lugs, alarm winding-crown at2, time-setting and winding-crown at 4, push-button for quickadjustment of the calendar at 8. D. White with applied yellowgold luminous indexes, subsidiary dials for the date, days of theweek, the months and the 24 hours in red and black numbers,apertures for the leap year at 1 and for the moon phases at 6,outer 1/5th second graduation. Blued steel "skeleton" hands, redarrow for the alarm. M. Cal. 919, rhodium plated, "faussescôtes" decoration, 34 jewels, straight line lever escapement,monometallic balance adjusted to four positions, self-compen-satingflat balance spring, shock absorber, ball-bearing rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 42 mm. Thickness: 15 mm.