Jaeger Lecoultre Oval. These first memovox models were equipped with the watch calibres k489 k489 1 or k601 which were wound manually. Jaeger lecoultre women s watches a unique story.
The k601 also referred to a later quartz movement by jaeger lecoultre. The company vulcain had already produced the world s first alarm wristwatch named cricket in 1949. On the one hand there was antoine lecoultre who created his own workshop in 1833 and rapidly became a pioneer in terms of new watchmaking processes.
In this ad with the hyper modern concorde the classic e 855 and the iconic e 859 it is very easy to forget the bit odd oval e 861 which was released the year before in 1968.
Jaeger lecoultre introduced the master control in 1992. The 269 000 serial number points to a production year of somewhere around 1943. A large and unusual stainless steel oval shaped automatic diver s wristwatch with sweep centre seconds date alarm and bracelet signed jaeger lecoultre automatic memovox gt memovox polaris ii model ref. Jaeger lecoultre ad 1969 concord and memovox.