12,000 CHF
Stainless Steel Geophysic Jaeger LeCoultre, “Geophysic, Chronometre”,movement No. 1331686, case No. 748162. Made circa 1958. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, anti-magnetic to 600 Gauss, indirect center seconds, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with a stainless steel Jaeger LeCoultre buckle. Accompanied by the original guarantee. Two-body, polished, lapidated lugs, concave bezel, screwed down case back. Off-white with applied steel baton indexes and Arabic 12 and 6, luminous dots on the rehault, outer minute/seconds division. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. P478/BWSbr, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance, swan-neck regulator, self-compensating flat balance spring, adjusted to five positions and to temperatures, parachute shock absorber, hack mechanism, swan-neck regulator, anti-magnetic dust cap. Case, dial and movement signed. Diam 35 mm. Thickness 10 mm. Notes Jaeger-LeCoultre realized the Geophysic in anticipation of the International Geophysical Year, which ran from mid-1957 through 1958. Some 67 countries officially participated in a variety of experiments and observations of geophysical phenomena such as aurora, geomagnetism, glaciology and solar activity. Apparently the Geophysic was often presented as a sign of hommage, for example being given to the crew of the first nuclear-powered submarine, the US Nautilus, after their successful first voyage under the north pole in 1958. The real highlight is the movement
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
