4,080 CHF
White Chinoise Jaeger-LeCoultre, “AtmosMarina”, Ref. 5809.Made in the 1960s. Fine and very rare, rectangular, gilt brass and perspex (lucite) mantel clock with “Chinoiserie” panels and wound by barometric pressure changes. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee and booklet. Glazed on 4 sides and on the top with perspex (Lucite) panels, set with gilt Chinoiserie water landscapes, the front panel with aperture to view the pendulum, stepped plinth base. Matte offwhite with applied gilt brass faceted dart indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals. Gilt brass dauphine hands with black tips. Cal. 526-5, gilt brass, vacuum chamber winding the going barrel, lever escapement driven by annular tension pendulum, locking screw in the base below the pendulum disc. Case, movement and vacuum signed, the front Lucite panel signed “Marina”. Dim. 23 x 18 x 14 cm. Notes Production of this reference started in 1962.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
