Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso XL Wempe 100th Anniversary Automatic SS

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This is a stainless steel Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso XL Wempe 100th Anniversary Automatic 240.8.72. It has a leather strap with a stainless steel double folding deployment buckle, and a scratch resistant sapphire crystal. It has a pull out winding crown and a solid case back engraved with "JAEGER-LECOULTRE-REVERSO-WEMPE," the JLC 1000-hour test stamp, an edition number out of 100, and a serial number. The 46.8mm by 29.3mm five-body case, straight lugs, and reeded art deco bezel, are polished. The dial is two-tone silver with a guilloche center, painted black Arabic numeral hour markers, blued steel epee hands, and a third hand for the GMT 2nd day/night time zone dial at twelve o'clock. There is a rectangular inner minute track, and a circular running small seconds subsidiary dial at 6 o'clock, marked "100 Jahre (100 Years) Chronometrie Wempe." The reverse side has an exhibition sapphire display back with a circular sapphire lens, and the inner case is engine turned. It's water resistant to 30 meters/100 feet, and it has a power reserve of 42-hours at full wind. The12.5mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed. This Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso XL Wempe 100th Anniversary Automatic 240.8.72 has a mechanical automatic self-winding JLC caliber 970 movement. It's rhodium-plated, with fausses cotes embellishment. It's constructed with 29 jewels, twin barrels, a straight-line lever escapement, and a shock absorber device. It includes a Glucydor monometallic balance with variable inertia, a self-compensating free-sprung flat balance spring, and a rotor with ceramic ball bearings that require no oil. The mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 28,800 vph (4 Hz). This Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso XL Wempe 100th Anniversary Automatic 240 was introduced in 2005 for the 100th anniversary of Wempe Chronometerwerke. The stainless steel edition was 100 examples.

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