World Time Alarm---Vintage Jaeger LeCoultre Memovox Internationa

At SIHH 2010 Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced the Master Memovox International, initially produced for that brand’s 125th anniversary in 1958 and also called the Memovox Worldtimer. The alarm disk on Memovox versions features different metropolitan areas and regions. Besides this, the brand around the dial is most likely the only real similarity.
           
The new version is equipped with calibre 956, having a large free-sprung balance along with a winding rotor on ceramic ballbearings that requires no lube or maintenance. Within the vintage Memovox Worldtimer ticks obviously another movement (calibre 2612.1).

The brand new special edition Memovox Worldwide includes a diameter of 40mm, as the vintage version includes a diameter of just 33mm. Obviously you will find a lot more variations. Just consider the form of the lugs, the greater pronounced crowns, adding to start dating around the latest version.

This extremely beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox Alarm Watch is really a rare illustration of their Vintage Worldwide World Time model. Its exquisite black dial with Timezones around the globe and gold hands in addition to numbers/markers are perfectly ornamented through the superbly polished stainless case which is crowned by fully signed JLC winding crowns.

In the past, in 1950, Jaeger-LeCoultre launched the Memovox Alarm Watch, the model title a portmanteau of memoria and vox: “voice of memory”. The very first models were hands wound and outfitted using the Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 489. Although that calibre was quite effective, the organization rapidly started focus on a successor. A brief run of under 2,000 Calibre 601 models was then the development of Calibre 814 in 1953, available without or with to start dating display, and it was much enhanced for maintenance and reliability.

Alongside Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Reverso, the Memovox immediately acquired recognition like a watershed in the watch-making industry achievement a lot to ensure that the organization chose it as being the symbolic culmination of the as much as then 125 year history, that year creating a small group of World Time Memovox wrist watches open to celebrate this significant event.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox watches also were top quality and offered by Cartier, Gubelin (known as "Ipsovox"), and Van Cleef & Arpels. Further, until 1980, all Jaeger-LeCoultre models such as the Memovox, were offered as "LeCoultre" as well as for many of these watches the instances were in your area created. In The United States, Vacheron Constantin LeCoultre, a subsidiary of Longines-Wittnauer, handled final set up in addition to distribution.