Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 19, 2012

LOT 253

JAEGER SHIP'S WHEEL WALL CLOCK Jaeger Watch Co., USA, New York. Made circa 1940. Very rare brass and wood 8-day going clock in the shape of a ship's wheel. To be sold without reserve

C. Cast brass with six wooden brass set handles and a wooden mount. D. Black with bold Arabic numerals, inner minute track. Off white split cathedral hands. M. 43 mm, broad fausses cotes decoration, 6 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating fl at balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 46 cm.