Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 240

JAEGER-LECOULTRE REF. 140.2.80 MASTER PERPETUAL PINK GOLD Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Master Control Perpetual", No. 0403, Ref. 140.2.80. Made in the 1990's. Very fine and elegant, center seconds, self-winding, water resistant, 18k pink gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year indication, age and phases of the moon and ann 18k pink gold Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp.

Three-body, polished, case back secured by 4 screws, concave lugs, corrector on the band, sapphire crystal. Silver with applied pink gold dart and luminous dot indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, the days of the week, the months, sector for the age of the moon and aperture for the moon phases, aperture for the leap year and red and white warning to prevent date change at certain hours. Pink gold dauphine hands. Cal. 889/440/2, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil de perdrix decoration, 50 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, 22K gold rotor segment, hack mechanism.