Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 384

JAEGER LECOULTRE 20 U.S. DOLLAR COIN WATCH YELLOW GOLD Jaeger LeCoultre, Geneve, Twenty Dollars 1900, Genève, case No. 326860. Made in the 1980s. Very fine, 18K yellow gold wristwatch, inserted in a U.S. 20 Dollar coin dated 1900.

C. Double case, coin opening with a push-piece to the band, three-body hinged inner case, straight lugs.
D. Champagne with painted baton indexes. Black baton hands.
M. Cal. 9 ¾???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial signed, case signed: S. Kocher, Swiss and movement signed: Eska Watch Co. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 4 mm.