Since Jaeger-LeCoultre’s launch of the first Memovox alarm watch in 1950 with what has become an immediately recognisable dial consisting of concentric rings and a triangular marker for the alarm, it has become an important part of the brand’s modern… Read More ›
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VULCAIN : a 1950s Cricket
Vulcain’s flagship (and most well-known) model the Cricket needs no introduction, and today’s post features one that contains the Calibre 120, the original Cricket movement that was patented in 1947. The first modern wrist alarm movement, it predated the more… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : PROTOTYPE Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox Tribute to Polaris 1968
Seven hundred and sixty eight. This is the number that were produced by Jaeger-LeCoultre in 2008 of the immensely popular re-edition of the 1968 (as opposed to the other 2008 re-edition of the 1965 version) Memovox Polaris diving watch. A… Read More ›