$9,775
Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Calendrier Perpétuel, Le Grand Réveil", Automatic, Ref. 180.1.99. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, large, astronomic, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, mechanical alarm on a bronze bell, 24-hour indication, 3 crowns and an 18K yellow gold Jaeger-LeCoultre buckle. Two-body, solid, polished, case back with six titanium screws, stepped bezel, fluted and curved lugs. Alarm winding-crown at 2, time-setting and winding-crown at 4, push-button for quick adjustment of the calendar at 8. White with applied yellow gold luminous indexes, subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week, the months and the 24 hours in red and black numbers, apertures for the leap year at 1 and for the moon phases at 6, outer 1/5th second graduation. Blued steel "skeleton" hands, red arrow for the alarm. Cal. 919, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 34 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to four positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, ball-bearing rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 42 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-12-01
