1,625 CHF
Jaeger Crocodile Desk Compendium with Calendar Jaeger, Suisse, "ADOS Standard Barometre et Calendrier", No. 104142, Patent No. 365.884. Made circa 1950. Very fine and rare, gilt-brass and crocodile desk compendium with 8-day clock, triple date calendar, alarm, thermometer and barometer. Two-body, crocodile-covered with folding cover forming the stand, two gilt-brass hinged cases for the clock and barometer, the thermometer between on a white plate with black painted scale. White painted with applied dart indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals, inner minute track. Luminous gilt skeleton hands. Barometer: off-white painted with black barometric scale. Blued steel arrow hand. Cal. 201, 50 mm., nickel, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, index regulator. Dials signed. Dim. 16 x 12 x 3 cm. Property of a French Collector
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-05-15
