$5,520
Le Coultre, “Reverso,” retailed by Walser Wald. Made in the 1930s. Fine and very rare, rectangular, stainless steel, gentleman's reversible wristwatch. Four-body, polished, reeded bezel. Brown with painted ”12” and bâton indexes. "Epée" off-white hands. Notes Jaeger LeCoultre, "Reverso.” The history of the "Reverso" begins in 1930 in India. Cesar de Trey, a Swiss traveler, picked up the idea for a watch that could be turned over to protect its dial and crystal from the dangers common watches faced on the dusty polo fields in the, then, British colony. Back in Switzerland, he approached the LeCoultre company in Le Sentier with his ideas. It was decided to have the case for the watch developed by the Jaeger company in France, who asked the French designer and engineer René-Alfred Chauvet to prepare the drawings for its production.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-03-23
