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Lovely watch!
About the article, Google Translate is your friend. You can upload the picture and get nearly instantaneous translation.
About its content, I am not sure it brings much. They mention caliber 861 which is not the one in this watch (822?). Also, they mention the struggle of fitting a small second and describe that a bit like a novelty, which is not the case (cal 410 - 11" U and cal 413 - 11" UO in 1930s). Nice photo of the two models though.
Enjoy your lovely watch!
Best,
E.
Like the JLC Reverso Classique Latitude very much!
By the way, I found an article about that specific model (translation into english, anyone? 😉) Source: "Les Editions Jalou" PDF La Revue des Montres nr. 85-2003 - page 66/67. Regards, Ron ...
Not sure if I understood this right... but this is a mono-sided model - JLC produced it either with blue or with white dial.
So if you wanted both colors, you had to take two watches! 😉👍
New pics? That would be great!
Interesting thing is, you'll find a lot of information about the JLC cal. 822 (which drives the GT case version of the Latitude) in the net - but nearly nothing about the cal. 861 which is contained in the classic case versions...
And its little brother..
Really should post this next to my duo - the dial on the classique sized is surprisingly strong.. ...
Goodness I don’t know how I missed that post
But for the story this is the very first ever timepiece I felt in love with and pushed me into horology (and I did not even know what jlc was then). I just loved the shape, the color and simplicity yet sophisticated watch. Been trying to find one then wit...
Lovely watch!
About the article, Google Translate is your friend. You can upload the picture and get nearly instantaneous translation. About its content, I am not sure it brings much. They mention caliber 861 which is not the one in this watch (822?). Also, they mentio...