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Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 407

White Gold "Jump Hours & World Time" Jaquet Droz, Genève, "Les Douze Villes Rehaut, Ardoise", No. 53, Ref. J010124201. Made circa 2006. Very fine, large, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with jump-hours, world time indication for 12 cities, double barrel and an 18K white gold Jaquet Droz buckle. Accompanied by a wooden fitted box and a guarantee.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, rounded band and bezel, curved concave lugs, button at 2 o?clock for the world time, sapphire crystals. D. Opaline slate gray with outer applied white gold hour indexes and painted dot minute indexes, off-center silver engineturned dial with apertures for the hours and cities indication for Geneve, Istanbul, Moscow, Dubai, Aspen, Mexico, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney, Azores, London, framed by a brushed white gold ring secured to the dial base plate with 2 blued steel screws. Blued steel "alpha" hand. M. Cal. 3663.C4, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 28 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, twin barrels, 22K white gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 12 mm.