Contemporary, Limited Edition and Col...

New York, Grand Havana Room, Dec 01, 1999

LOT 144

Jaeger LeCoultre, "Reverso Chronographe Rétrograde", No. 024/500, 1990's.Extremely fine and rare, rectangular, double face, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and date, with 44 hours power reserve and 18K pink gold deployant clasp.

USD 20,000 - 25,000

C. three body, massive, polished, ribbed bezel, transparent back. D. "guilloché" silver with painted Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, aperture for the date, chronograph start/stop display with, on the back, the seconds and the retrograde 30 minutes register ring dials. "Bâton" blued steel hands. M. 9 ''' copper colored, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 26 x 42 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: * 2
Dial: 2 - 01

Notes

This watch is part of a limited series of 500 examples only, produced in the 1990's.After having produced the famous "Reverso" in the version Tourbillon, Minute Repeating and Dual Time, it took Jaeger LeCoultre two years to study and realize this "Chronographe Rétrograde". The complexity of this model constrained the creators to use a double dial: one side for the usual reading of the time, the date and the start-and-stop chronograph indication, the other side for the chronograph and register functions.