Calling All Watch Collectors: Jaeger-LeCoultre To Host Unique Auction of Important Pieces Later This Month

This November 29, Jaeger-LeCoultre, alongside auction house Artcurial, will host the largest sale of JLC pieces in history. This will be a veritable feast for vintage and important JLC collectors, and they have given us an early look at some of the piece available. Included are, in our very humble opinion, some of the coolest watches of the 20th century.

The sale will include an original American Deep Sea diving watch (you can see 2011's tribute here), and original Polaris, an original Reverso from 1933 with blue enamel dial (a red enamel Reverso recently sold for around $35k), an unique Atmos clock, and a super cool watch called the Geophysic Chronometer, this one in gold.

The sale will take place at the Hotel Marcel Dassault, Paris on Nov 29, 2011. Previews will run in Geneva at the Hotel de La Paix from Nov 12-14, 2011 and Paris at the Hotel Marcel Dassault from Nov 24-28, 2011 and are open to the public.

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