Lot 335

LeCoultre

A rare hunting case pocket watch with perpetual calendar and retrograde date

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Movement and the case of this beautiful gold hunting case pocket watch with its finely engine-turned pattern are in excellent condition. The dial has a retrograde date display, an oval window for the day of the week and a sub-dial at 4 o'clock to show the months.

The Eugène LeCoultre company was active in the second half of the 19th century and produced very fine and extremely complicated watches, some of them with perpetual calendars. In 1880 the company was awarded first prize in the chronometer test at the Geneva observatory.