1,625 CHF
JAEGER-LECOULTRE WHITE AQUARIUM Jaeger-LeCoultre, Atmos. Made in the 1960s. Fine and very rare, rectangular gilt brass and perspex (lucite) mantel clock with aquarium panels and wound by barometric pressure changes. To be sold without reserve Glazed on 4 sides and on the top with perspex (lucite) panels with gilt angel-fi sh and water plants, the front panel with aperture to view the pendulum, stepped plinth base. Off-white with applied faceted gilt 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 torsion pendulum, locking screw in the base below the pendulum disc. Case, movement and vacuum signed. Dim. 23 x 18 x 13.5 cm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-11-11