Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jan 26, 2013

LOT 238

JAEGER LECOULTRE, MEMOVOX WRIST ALARM Jaeger LeCoultre, No. 1485099, case No. 826585. Made in the 1950?s. Fine, center-seconds, gold plated travel pocket watch with alarm and 2 crowns. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, snap back case back, folding easel to use as a travel clock, the crown at 11 activates the central revolving alarm dial and winds the alarm. D. Silver with emboss gold plated dart indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, at the center revolving alarm dial. Luminous gold Dauphine hands. M. Cal. K814, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, fausses cotes decoration, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 42 x 41 mm.