Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 192

Jaeger Aviation Dashboard Chronograph Jaeger, Swiss, Movement No. 203399, case No. B 182888, patent No. 111.406. Made circa 1940. Fine, painted brass and aluminium, 8-day going, aviation dashboard clock with chronograph and time of trip registers. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, aluminium bezel and painted brass movement housing, bracket for fixing, buttons for the winding, totalisation, start/ stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute and seconds track, subsidiary dials for the 60-minute register with indication for Totalisation and Suspension Totalisation, the 12-hours with indication for Arret Totalisation and Arret Absolu au Zero. Luminous skeleton hands.M. Gilt, irregular shaped, fausses cotes decoration, 14 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed Jaeger, movement signed LeCoultre & Co. Diam. 87 mm.