Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 225

?Hunting Cased Split Seconds? LeCoultre & Co., Switzerland, No. 66699, case No. 87400. Made for the American market circa 1900. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, 18K yellow gold split-seconds chronograph with 30-minute instantaneous register.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets", engine-turned covers, front with monogram, reeded band, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and outermost chronograph divisions, sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 20???, half plate, maillechort, damascened, 23 jewels, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, adjusted, blued steel Breguet balance spring, eccentric cam micrometer regulator. Dial signed, case and movement numbered. Diam. 53 mm.