A glass and hand-painted faux marble mantle clock.  This exceptional piece of clock making is another stunning example from arguably the world's finest watch and clock maker; Jaeger LeCoultre.  This fine desk, or mantle clock, features Jaeger LeCoultre's classic seven jewel, eight day movement that is mounted to the rear of the clock case. 

The dial itself is another example of the mastery of LeCoultre's cratspeople's talent.  It has an enamel, hand painted deep red  finish with a multitude of hand applied specs that give the impression of other materials being present in the 'stone'.  This was part of a serious of hand painted finishes that were applied to clocks in various shapes and forms during the 1960/70's by JLC.  

This sits beneath a gilt brass rectangular applied frame with engraved and then black filled dash markers and clean Roman Numeral markers.  The hands are a gilt metal, clean and easy to read, pointed bevel design.  The dial is gilt signed both 'Lecoultre', and 'Swiss'.  Floating in between these is the number '8' signifying that it is indeed an eight day movement. This is to indicate, that once fully wound, the clock will run for eight days.  

This example is in superb, fully original, condition.  It is also signed on the base with 'Swiss' and the model reference number of '531'.  There is also an original factory sticker hand filled in on the base.  The clock was made in Switzerland circa the late 1960's for the American market.