Jaeger-LeCoultre - Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Hong Kong Sessions, Fall 2023 Hong Kong Thursday, September 21, 2023 | Phillips
  • Manufacturer: Jaeger-LeCoultre
    Year: Circa 2006
    Reference No: 150.8.22, 176.84.7C
    Movement No: J’150’822
    Case No: 0’069, No. 10/20
    Model Name: Master Compressor Extreme World Chronograph, Emmanuel Coindre Edition
    Material: Stainless steel and titanium
    Calibre: Automatic, cal. 752, 41 jewels
    Bracelet/Strap: Leather
    Clasp/Buckle: Stainless steel Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp
    Dimensions: 46mm diameter
    Signed: Case, dial, movement and clasp signed
    Accessories: Accompanied by Jaeger-LeCoultre guarantee dated 11 March 2006, repair certificate stamped Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre, Switzerland dated 9th November 2012, service invoices, instruction manual, additional rubber strap, fitted presentation box and outer packaging.

  • Catalogue Essay

    - In 2005, Jaeger-LeCoultre honored Emmanuel Coindre’s epic solo crossing of the Pacific’s treacherous Northern Passage with a limited edition Master Compressor Extreme World Chronograph. Just 30 would be made: 20 in steel and titanium (present example), 10 in platinum and titanium, their casebacks engraved with the 11,000-kilometer route from Choshi, Japan to San Francisco. A black strap with yellow stitching evoked the colors of Coindre’s rowboat; the world-time disc featured Choshi in yellow replacing Tokyo and San Francisco in yellow replacing Los Angeles—nods to his starting and endpoints.

    - For 129 days, 17 hours and 22 minutes, the 32-year-old Coindre braved fog, typhoons, countercurrents and capsizes alone in his rowboat, without stops or assistance. His sole companion: a Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Extreme World Chronograph, indicating each time zone traversed and minutes of his valiant quest. Against odds cruel and manifold, Coindre became the first to conquer the Northern Passage single-handedly through sheer will, endurance and the watch that kept his dream of victory alive.

    - With this edition honoring Coindre's achievement, Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrates the vision and heroism defining human imagination unbound. Every second of his 3,800 hours at sea measured by its chronograph, the Master Compressor Extreme World Chronograph emerged a talisman commemorating the human spirit that prevailed over doubt, exhaustion and nemesis undiscovered at journey's dawn.

    - For the collector, this edition represents watchmaking honoring history's greatness. But its significance transcends timekeeping alone. Number 10 of 20 offers a glimpse into the conqueror's well of fortitude plumbed by Coindre, proof of hope eternal on each distant horizon and dream now made reality by time defied.

  • Artist Biography

    Jaeger-LeCoultre

    Swiss • 1833

    Not all companies in the watchmaking field have been able to stand the test of time quite like Jaeger LeCoultre, also known as the "watchmaker's watchmaker." Founded in 1833 by Antoine LeCoultre and originally named LeCoutre, the firm provided watchmaking's top brands, such as Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin and Audemars Piguet, the high-grade, unfinished mechanical movements with which they completed their watches.

    In the early 1900s, Cartier's watch supplier Edmond Jaeger sought out LeCoultre's help in creating the world's thinnest watches. The collaboration resulted in the creation of Cartier's earliest Tank and Santos watches, all housed with LeCoultre movements. The duo decided to merge in 1937, and the firm officially became the Jaeger-LeCoultre brand by which collectors know and adore it today. Some of the firm's most significant and important timepieces include the Reverso, the Memovox, the Atmos clock and, among modern watches, their Master Complications.

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Lot offered with No Reserve

Ref. 150.8.22, 176.84.7C
A very rare and large limited edition stainless steel and titanium world time chronograph wristwatch with date, guarantee and presentation box, numbered 10 of a limited edition of 20 pieces made in celebration of Emmanuel Coindre’s voyage across the Northern passage of the Pacific Ocean

Circa 2006
46mm diameter
Case, dial, movement and clasp signed

Estimate
HK$40,000 - 80,000 
€4,700-9,400
$5,100-10,300

Sold for HK$63,500

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Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Hong Kong Sessions, Fall 2023

21-28 September 2023