333,500 CHF
Jaeger, Genève et Paris, movement signed European Watch & Clock Co. , made for Henri Rodanet in 1931. Very elegant and highly important, made only in two examples, 18K gold and enamel, keyless astronomical triple-complication dress watch with perpetual calendar, phases of the moon, minute-repeating, split-seconds chronograph with 30-minute register in special case, with skeletonized dial. Silver, skeletonized, minute and seconds ring divided into fifths, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the four-year leap cycle concentric with minute register, and subsidiary seconds concentric with moon phase aperture. Blued steel Breguet hands. 40 mm (18’’’), maillechort, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to 8 positions, Breguet balance spring, "swan-neck" micrometric regulator, chronograph and split-seconds mechanism set on the back plate, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Band signed JAEGER, movement by EWC. Diam. 50 mm. Notes This watch has always been in the family of Henri Rodanet Jaeger made only two watches like the present one; one for Louis Cartier (illustrated in "Le Temps de Cartier", by Jader Barracca, Giampiero Negretti and Franco Nencini, page 194), the other for Henri Rodanet, the chairman of the company. Henri Rodanet (1884-1956) Administrator and technical director of Jaeger, he came from a horological family. His grandfather, Hil
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
