Jaeger-LeCoultre - Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Geneva Sessions Spring 2025 Geneva Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | Phillips
  • Manufacturer: Jaeger-LeCoultre
    Year: Circa 2001
    Reference No: 270.6.49
    Case No: 123/500
    Model Name: Reverso Platinum Number One
    Material: Platinum
    Calibre: Manual, cal. 849R-SQ, jeweled
    Bracelet/Strap: Leather
    Clasp/Buckle: Platinum Jaeger-LeCoultre clasp
    Dimensions: 26mm width and 42mm length
    Signed: Case, dial, movement and clasp signed
    Accessories: Accompanied by Jaeger-LeCoultre presentation box and outer pacakging.

  • Catalogue Essay

    - Introduced in 1931, the Reverso has a most fascinating history, as the creation of the model absolutely ties functionality with aesthetics. During his travels in India, Swiss businessman and watch collector César de Trey attended a polo match at a club for British army officers. At that moment, one of these officers had broken the glass of his timepiece, and challenged de Trey to create a watch robust enough to resist a polo match, yet elegant enough to be worn in a formal setting. As such, the Reverso timepiece was born.

    - With a dial that could be flipped, the outside case was also a perfect canvas for artistry and decoration. The possibilities were endless, from enamel, to engraving, and so on.

    - Carrying the reference number 270.6.49, the present watch is a model among the Number One series, which was sold from 2001. With a case made of platinum and a skeletonized dial that can be admired from both sides, the model was most notably the very first Reverso to be cased in platinum. The skeletonisation was done entirely in-house at newly established metiers d’art workshop in manufacture. Numbered 123, the present timepiece is one among 500 pieces from the series.

  • Artist Biography

    Jaeger-LeCoultre

    Swiss • 1833

    Not all companies in the watchmaking field have been able to stand the test of time quite like Jaeger LeCoultre, also known as the "watchmaker's watchmaker." Founded in 1833 by Antoine LeCoultre and originally named LeCoutre, the firm provided watchmaking's top brands, such as Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin and Audemars Piguet, the high-grade, unfinished mechanical movements with which they completed their watches.

    In the early 1900s, Cartier's watch supplier Edmond Jaeger sought out LeCoultre's help in creating the world's thinnest watches. The collaboration resulted in the creation of Cartier's earliest Tank and Santos watches, all housed with LeCoultre movements. The duo decided to merge in 1937, and the firm officially became the Jaeger-LeCoultre brand by which collectors know and adore it today. Some of the firm's most significant and important timepieces include the Reverso, the Memovox, the Atmos clock and, among modern watches, their Master Complications.

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Ref. 270.6.49
A highly rare and attractive platinum skeletonized wristwatch, numbered 123 of a limited edition of 500 pieces

Circa 2001
26mm width and 42mm length
Case, dial, movement and clasp signed

Estimate
CHF8,000 - 12,000 
€8,500-12,700
$8,900-13,400

Sold for CHF20,320

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Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Geneva Sessions Spring 2025

5 - 12 March 2025