Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces.

Hong Kong, Mar 18, 2017

LOT 144

JAEGER-LECOULTRE MASTER TOURBILLON PINK GOLD JAEGER- LECOULTRE, "MASTER TOURBILLON - 1000 HOURS", NO. 2404171, Ref. 146.2.34.S. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, independently adjustable hour hand for use as a second-time-zone , 24-hour indication, semi-instantaneous patented special date function and an 18K pink gold Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original Jaeger-Lecoultre fitted box, loupe, guarantee certificate, instruction booklet.

Two-body, solid, polished, inclined bezel, transparent case back with 4 screws, concave lugs, sapphire crystals. Satine silver with applied pink gold dart indexes and Arabic numerals, luminous dots, subsidiary 24 hour dial, outermost date graduation, the date hand jumping from 15-16 so as not to obscure the tourbillon, aperture for the visible one-minute tourbillon regulator at 6, carrying the 3-spoke blued steel seconds hand, independently adjustable hour hand. Polished and frosted pink gold alpha hands. Cal. 978, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator, titanium bridge, 3 equidistant arm titanium carriage, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, 22K gold rotor.