Up For Sale is a Girard-Perregaux/Jaeger-LeCoultre 18k Gold Minute Repeating Hunter Case Pocket Watch, c. 1900, w/ original Girard-Perregaux presentation box. Signed Girard-Perregaux, Chaux de Fonds 18k yellow gold hunting case no. 315065 measures 54mm with engraved cuvette and slide in the band. Signed white enamel dial with outer minute track, black Breguet numerals and gold Louis XV hands, with subsidiary seconds dial at the 6 o’clock position. Jaeger-LeCoultre signed mechanical repeating movement, with signature found on caliber under hammer of repeater. In excellent condition. Comes with Gerard-Perregaux presentation box. Inventory no. 22057
In the time period that this timepiece was produced, it was common practice for so call called ‘Etablissement’ houses to buy movements from movement makers. LeCoultre was the biggest movement maker during this period, supplying Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Audemars Piguet (who also made their own movements), Girard-Perregaux, Cartier and many others. The discovery of the Jaeger Le-Coultre signature on the movement of this timepiece determines that this watch was produced collaboratively by Girard-Perregaux and Jaeger-LeCoultre.
