Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Nov 27, 2016
JAEGER LECOULTRE MASTER MARINER DEEP SEA STEEL Jaeger LeCoultre, "Master Mariner, Deep Sea, Automatic". Made circa 1968. Unusual, tonneau-shaped, center-seconds, self- winding, water- resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date and two crowns.
Two-body, polished and brushed, screwed- down case back. Black with white -baton indexes, outer revolving 60-minute ring operated by crown at 2 o'clock, aperture for the date, inner 1/5 seconds and minute division. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 883, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case