Jaeger-lecoultre Ref. 201

JAEGER-LECOULTRE REF. 201 EARLY REVERSO PROPERTY OF GENERAL DOUGLAS Mac Arthur STEEL Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Reverso,"retailed by Golay Fils & Stahl, movement No. 38113, case No. 13908, Ref. 201. Made circa 1935. Fine, historically important and very rare, rectangular curved, reversible, stainless steel wristwatch. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives and a letter attesting to the provenance. Three-body, polished and brushed, angled lugs, reeded upper and lower bezel continuing to the back, caseback with black monogram DMacA. Black with luminous arabic indexes, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Steel epée hands Cal. 410, tonneau-shaped, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Notes Dial and movement signed, case punched "Patent." DIM. 23 x 38 mm. THICKNESS 8 mm. Directly from the Family of the Original Owner General Douglas MacArthur in Manila, Philippines in 1945. 'And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye.' - General Douglas Mac Arthur (1880-1964) 'Old soldiers never die, they just fade away' it is by these famous words at the Congress in 1951 that General Douglas Mac Arthur became one of the greatest military leaders of American History, interrupted during his speech by ov