Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 84

JAEGER-LECOULTRE REF. 270.2.68 REVERSO TOURBILLON Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Reverso Tourbillon", No. 287/500, Ref. 270.2.68. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces circa 1993, sold in 1994. Very fine and rare, rectangular, 18K pink gold reversible wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, 40-hour power reserve indication and an 18K pink gold Jaeger- leCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Jaeger- LeCoultre warranty, instruction booklet and numbered booklet.

Five-body, solid, polished, reeded bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Guilloché silver with painted Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, inner minute divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. On the back, the tourbillon under a polished steel bridge and the power-reserve indication sector. Blued steel épée hands. Cal. 828, copper colored, fausses cotes decoration, 27 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with three equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring.