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Jaeger-LeCoultre & J. Forest. A fine, very rare and unusual 8-day Art Deco table clock with electric illuminated terrestrial globe

SIGNED JAEGER-LECOULTRE, REF. 163, "MAPPEMONDE", NO. 4'700, THE GLOBE GORES BY J. FOREST, 17-19, RUE DE BUCI, PARIS, CIRCA 1935

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Jaeger-LeCoultre & J. Forest. A fine, very rare and unusual 8-day Art Deco table clock with electric illuminated terrestrial globe
Signed Jaeger-LeCoultre, ref. 163, "Mappemonde", no. 4'700, the globe gores by J. Forest, 17-19, rue de Buci, Paris, circa 1935
Cal. 201 mechanical 8-day jewelled lever movement wound through the base, octagonal bakelite and chrome base with aperture for the revolving dial with white and gray indication for the day and night hours, Arabic numerals, surmounted by the minute divisions with 24 hour indication, silvered and red arrow-shaped pointers indicating the hours and minutes, glass globe overlaid with paper gores to a scale of 1:65,000,000, electrical connection for the globe in the base, case and movement signed
Approx. 20 x 25 cm.

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With Jaeger-LeCoultre Repair Guarantee Certificate dated 01/02/2011.

For the illustration of a similar luminous globe clock see Jaeger-LeCoultre - the Story of the Grande Maison by Franco Cologni, p. 351, Inv. 539.

The present "Mappemonde" is a fine example of one of Jaeger-LeCoultre's Art Deco table clocks, illustrating the division of the earth in the 1930s, and a rare find given the delicateness of its glass globe.

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