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Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 30

?Master Control? Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Master Control 1000 Hours, Géographique", Ref. 142.3.92. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, "World Time", center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with date, 40-hour power reserve, day and night indication and an 18K white gold Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, concave lugs, hinged cover over transparent case back with 4 screws, a second crown at 10 to select the city of an additional time zone. D. Twotone silver with applied white gold dart indexes, ?guilloché? subsidiary dials for the second time zone, the days of the month and the up-and-down indication, aperture for a bi-directional rotating disk with the names of the main cities of the world. White gold "dauphine" hands. M. Cal. 929/3, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, 22K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 12 mm.