Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 15

Le Jour - PV D - Auto - Chrono - Day & Date Le Jour, Swiss, case No. 8700. Made circa 2000. Fine, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, PVD-coated stainless steel wristwatch with day & date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a PVD-coated stainless steel link bracelet with deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, screwed-down case back and winding-crown, hooded lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Black with painted luminous baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th second/minute divisions, outermost tachometer graduation to 1000 UPH, aperture for the day and date. Luminous black and white baton hands. M. Cal. Lemania 5100, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial signed. Dim. 41 x 45 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Approx. overall length 180 mm.