$10,005
Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Reverso Art Deco,” No. 149, Ref. 270.3.62. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, rectangular, 18K white gold gentleman's reversible wristwatch with an 18K white gold Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded bezel, transparent case back, triangular lugs, sapphire crystals. Matte and "guilloché" copper-colored with applied white gold dart and dot indexes, subsidiary seconds dial.White gold "dauphine" hands. Cal. 822, skeletonized and hand-engraved 14K gold, 21 jewels, straight line leverescapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial and case signed.Dim. 26 x 42 mm. Thickness: 10 mm. 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
