Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2019

LOT 479

LECOULTRE PLIQUE-A-JOUR

CHF 40,000 - 60,000

HKD 320,000 - 480,000 / USD 40,000 - 60,000

Sold: CHF 50,000

A very fine, important and complicated, large and heavy, hunting-cased,18K gold, keyless pocket watch with plique-a-jour enamel decoration. Minute-repeating, with perpetual calendar, chronograph, phases of the moon and lunar calendar.


Grading System
Grade:
Case: 3-31

Good

Transformations

Movement: 3

Good

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand LeCoultre

Year Circa 1900

Movement No. 4940

Calibre  20’’’, matte gilt, straightline lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator.

Case No. 4940

Dimensions 58 mm

Signature  Movement beneath the hour hammer, cuvette with engraved ‘’EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE 1900’’.