Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 225

JAEGER REVERSO SQUADRA CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Jaeger LeCoultre, "Reverso Squadra Chronographe, Automatic, 1000 Hours Control", case No. 2448175, Ref. 230.2.45. Sold in April 2007. Very fine, large, rectangular and reversible, 18K pink gold, self-winding, water-resistant, two-time- zone wristwatch with square-button chronograph, registers, large double date and an 18K pink gold Jaeger LeCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box. Guarantee and instruction booklet.

Five-body, massive, polished and brushed, reeded bezel, lapidated lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Two-tone silver, inner "stripe" decoration with Arabic numerals, inner minute divisions, outer fifths of a second chronograph divisions, square subsidiary dials for the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, the second time zone with 24-hour numerals, large double date aperture at 12. Luminous blackened steel épée hand. Cal. 754, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 39 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, free-sprung monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed.