Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 438

Jaeger LeCoultre, "Reverso Chronographe Retrograde", No 199/500, 1990's. Fine and rare, rectangular, double face, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and date, with 44 hours power reserve, 18K pink gold deployant clasp, large mahogany wood fitted box and certificate.

CHF 28,000 - 32,000

C. massive, polished, reeded bezel, transparent back. D. "guilloche" silver with painted Arabic numerals, aperture for the date, chronograph start/stop display with, on the back, the seconds and the retrograde 30 minutes register ring dials. "Baton" blued steel hands. M. 9"' gilt brass, "fausses cotes" decoration, 37 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, antishock system, self-compensating flat balancespring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 26 x 42 mm.


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Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 1-35

As new

To be restored
Movement: 1

As new
Dial: 1-51

As new

Partially reprinted

Notes

Reverso chronograph Retrograde This watch is part of a limited series of 500 examples only 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 to realize this "Chronographe Retrograde". The complexity of this model constrained the creators to use a double dial: one for the usual reading of the time and the date and the other one for the chronograph functions.