Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2015

LOT 67

JAEGER-LECOULTRE REF. 149.6.34S. NO. 31/300 MASTER TOURBILLON PLATINUM Jaeger-LeCoultre, Master Tourbillon - 1000 Hours, No. 31/300, case No. 2492451, Ref. 149.6.34S. Sold in April 2010. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, two time zone, platinum wristwatch with visible one minute tourbillon regulator, independently adjustable hour hand for a second time zone, 24-hour indication, patented semi-instantaneous special date function and an 18k white gold Jaeger-LeCoultre double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, Certificate, instruction booklet and loupe.

Two-body, solid, polished, inclined bezel, transparent case back with 4 screws, concave lugs, sapphire crystals. Black with applied faceted dart indexes and Arabic numerals, luminous dots, subsidiary 24 hour dial at 12, outermost date graduation, the date hand jumping from 15-16 so as not to obscure the tourbillon, aperture for the visible one-minute tourbillon regulator at 6, carrying the 3-spoke blued steel seconds hand, independently adjustable hour hand. Luminous white gold alpha hands. Cal. 978, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator, titanium bridge, 3 equidistant arm titanium carriage, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, 22K gold rotor.