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LOTS 70 & 67 JAEGER LE COULTRE MEMOVOX


The eventful history of the LeCoultre Company has its origins in 1833. It was in that year that the imaginative engineer and gifted craftsman, Charles-Antoine LeCoultre, started producing toothed wheels for watches at the southwest corner of the picturesque Joux Lake.


In 1877, the founder’s son started the construction and manufacture of complicated mechanisms for watches. It would be no exaggeration to say that there is hardly a watchmaking complication-chronograph, alarms, calenders, repeating work or tourbillons, that hasn’t been mastered by LeCoultre. From 1860 to 1925 the factory turned out around 60,000 watch movements with various complications.


1925 saw the creative enterprise merge with Jaeger, a watchmaker from Alsace, which numbered Cartier and the French Navy among its clients.


At the 1951 Basle Fair, Jaeger Le-Coultre astonished the watch industry with the “Memovox”, a wristwatch with an alarm that was impossible to ignore. The manually wound version was followed in 1n 1956 by the patented calibre 815 which was wound automatically by an oscillating weight.


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