31,050 CHF
Jaeger LeCoultre, "Reverso Chronographe Retrograde" No. 230/500, 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, 18K pink gold deployant clasp and accompanied by a wooden fitted box and by a certificate. massive, polished, reeded bezel, transparent back. "guilloche" silver with painted Arabic numerals, aperture for the date, chronograph start/stop display with, on the back, the seconds and the retrograde 30 minutes register ring dials. "Baton" blued steel hands. Notes This watch is part of a limited series of 500 pieces, produced in 1990 ' s. After having produced the famous "Reverso " in the version Tourbillon, minute repeating and Dual time, it took Jaeger LeCoultre two years studies to realize this "Chronographe Retrograde " . The complexity of this model constrained the creators to use a double dial: one for the usual reading of the time and the date and the other one for the chronograph functions.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1997-10-18
