Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 26, 2013

LOT 190

JAEGER-LECOULTRE REF. 270.2.58 REVERSO GEÓGRAPHIQUE PINK GOLD Jaeger-LeCoultre, 'Reverso Geógraphique', No. 018/500, Ref. 270.2.58. Made in a limited edition of 500 examples in 1999. Very fine and rare, manual winding, world-time, rectangular, two-time- zone, double dial reversible 18K pink gold wristwatch with moon phases, day and night and GMT indications, and 18K pink gold Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp.

Five-body, solid, polished, reeded bezel, fluted lugs, sapphire crystal. On one side, two-tone guilloché silver with painted black Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, inner minute track, subsidiary seconds dial, moon phases and day/night aperture. Blued steel épée hands. On the other, two-tone guilloché black off-center chapter ring with white Arabic numerals, at 8 aperture for the GMT indication, at 4 aperture for the day/ night indication, at the bottom, two individual apertures with the names of 12 GMT cities, and 12 other GMT + cities. A pusher on the band forwards the hours independently of the other dial; a square button on the band adjusts the hours and places. Luminous gold lozenge hands. Cal 858, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber. Dial, case and movement signed.