Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 218

Jaeger Desk Clock Jaeger, Suisse, "ADOS Standard", retailed by Keltz Bloch, Strasbourg, No. 044886, Ref. 52. Made circa 1938. Fine and rare, chrome and leather 8-day desk clock with alarm.

C. Two-body, leather-covered with folding cover forming the stand, chromed hinged case for the clock. D. Black painted with luminous baton hour indexes and Arabic quarter-hour, inner minute track. Luminous blued steel skeleton hands. M. Cal. 206, 50 mm., nickel, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, index regulator, alarm sounding on a gong. Dial signed. Dim. 11.4 x 7 x 3 mm.