Jaeger-LeCoultre - Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Geneva Sessions Spring 2025 Geneva Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | Phillips
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    • Manufacturer: Jaeger-LeCoultre
      Year: Circa 2006
      Reference No: 149.6.07.S
      Case No: 50/75
      Model Name: Gyrotourbillon 1
      Material: Platinum
      Calibre: Manual, cal. 117, 117 jewels
      Bracelet/Strap: Leather
      Clasp/Buckle: Platinum Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp
      Dimensions: 42.5mm diameter
      Signed: Case, dial, movement and clasp signed
      Accessories: Accompanied by Jaeger-LeCoultre Guarantee certificate, Gyrotourbillon 1 Certificate of Origin confirming the preset watch is numbered 50 of 75 pieces, product literature, book, loupe, setting pin, travel case, outer packaging and fitted presentation box.

    • Catalogue Essay

      - Launched in 2004 Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Gyrotourbillon 1 wristwatch is an impressive complicated timepiece developed by master watchmaker Eric Coudray and designer Magali Metrailler. The caliber 177 is composed of 679 individual parts, 117 jewels and features an array of complications including a multi-axis tourbillon, perpetual calendar with retrograde date and month indicator and leap year indication. In addition, its movement provides eight days of power reserve and features a "running" equation of time indication that displays the difference between solar time and mean time. Solar time is indicated by the minute hand tipped with a small sun, which sometimes runs ahead or behind the minute hand. Both hands are synchronized four times a year.

      - Its introduction allowed Jaeger-LeCoultre to become not just a haute horlogerie brand, but elevated the brand into a haute horlogerie movement maker. At the time of its release, there were few multi-axis tourbillon watches offered on the market. This amazing technical advancement was constructed of two carriages on two axis and different timing, with the external rotating every 60 seconds and the internal every 24 seconds, completing 2.5 turns per minute, thus allowing the correction of gravitational errors in all positions. The speed and continuous motion of the spherical tourbillon display will absolutely mesmerize and fascinate its wearer.

      - The present example, numbered 50 of a series of 75 timepieces, is in excellent condition and is accompanied with its certificate and presentation box.

    • 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. 149.6.07.S
A very rare semi-skeletonized platinum perpetual calendar wristwatch with multi-axis spherical tourbillon, retrograde date, month and leap year indication, eight day power reserve and equation of time, certificate of origin and presentation box, numbered 50 of a 75 piece limited edition

Circa 2006
42.5mm diameter
Case, dial, movement and clasp signed

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
CHF60,000 - 120,000 
€64,000-128,000
$66,400-133,000

Sold for CHF120,650

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Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Geneva Sessions Spring 2025

5 - 12 March 2025