Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 11, 2014

LOT 261

JAEGER-LECOUTRE REVERSO - GRAN' SPORT - YELLOW GOLD CHRONOGRAPH Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Reverso - Gran' Sport - Chronographe Rétrograde", case No. 1973140, Ref. 295.1.59. Made circa 2000. Fine, rectangular and reversible, double-dial, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, retrograde 30-minute register, date, chronograph start/stop indication and an 18K yellow gold Jaeger- LeCoultre double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Jaeger fitted box, guarantee and instruction manual.

Five-body, polished and brushed, reeded bezel, sapphire crystals. Front: Two-tone guilloche silver with luminous Arabic numerals on a plain outer reserve, date aperture at 6, chronograph start/stop indication at 5. Luminous black steel lozenge hands. Rear: Silvered chronograph dial repeating the front decoration, black chapter for the seconds and sector for the retrograde 30-minute register. Blued luminous steel lozenge and flèche hands. Cal. 9''', copper-colored, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism.