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Marius LeCoultre. A very fine and unusual 18K pink gold hunter case minute repeating perpetual calendar chronograph keyless lever watch with phases of the moon and retrograde date

SIGNED MARIUS LECOULTRE, GENEVA, SWISS, NO. 1924, CIRCA 1890

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Marius LeCoultre. A very fine and unusual 18K pink gold hunter case minute repeating perpetual calendar chronograph keyless lever watch with phases of the moon and retrograde date
Signed Marius LeCoultre, Geneva, Swiss, No. 1924, circa 1890
With gilt-finished highly jewelled lever movement, bimetallic compensation balance, cam wheel regulator, minute repeating on two polished steel hammers, glazed dust cover, gold cuvette, the white enamel dial with Arabic numerals, outer five minute divisions, blued steel spade hands, arch-shaped retrograde date indication, three apertures for phases of the moon, day and date, constant seconds, in heavy circular case with engraved initials to the front, chronograph button and repeating slide in the band, movement signed
58 mm. diam.

Lot Essay

Marius LeCoultre, a watchmaker and retailer located in Geneva, founded his own company in 1848. He specialized in unusual and high quality watches, developed a retrograde date system and was awarded an honourable mention during the Geneva Chronometer Contest in 1887. At the Chicago Universal Exhibition in 1893 he exhibited complicated and precision timepieces.

The complexity and high quality of the present watch combined with the fact that calendar indications are in English lead to the conclusion that this watch might have been one of the exhibits in Chicago.

Another particularity are the day and month indications for which LeCoultre used four letters instead of the more common three letter abbreviations.

For another LeCoultre watch with retrograde date display see lot 79 in this auction.

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