900 CHF
Jaeger LeCoultre Desk Compendium Jaeger LeCoultre, Suisse, No. 106745, Patent No. 365.884. Made circa 1930. Very fine and rare, chrome and leather desk compendium with 8-day clock, alarm, thermometer and barometer. Two-body, red leather-covered with folding cover forming the stand, two chromed hinged cases for the clock and barometer, telescopic winding crown with co-axial button for alarm setting, the thermometer between on a white plate with white black painted scale. Cream painted with luminous Arabic numerals, inner minute track. Luminous blued steel skeleton hands. Barometer: Cream painted with black barometric scale. Blued steel arrow hand and arrow pointer. Cal. 207, 50 mm., nickel, fausses cotes decoration,17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, index regulator, alarm sounding on a single gong. Dial signed, case numbered. Dim. 14.5 x 10.7 x 3 cm. Notes A desk set with similar clock to the present lot is illustrated in Jaeger LeCoultre, La Grande Maison, Franco Cologni, 2006, p. 346.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-03-20
