Jaeger-LeCoultre

Dear forum members,

I came across this memovox worldtimer. I never saw this model. Does any one of you seen this before. Is it a rare memovox ? How would you rate it s monetary value? Kind regars, WV

I would like to see other pictures, mainly of the case back, iniside and outside, the movement, and please can you give us the case and the movement number?

Best,

Nicolas

Hi Nicolas,

It was auctioned today at henrys.de. And it was sold. Only pictures of the front. No numbers mentioned. I got curious, because I never saw such a memovox worldtimer. The is no signing of JL at the dial. So I doubt whether it would be a genuine JL. Therefor I asked for the insights of fellow member of this forum. Kind regards

...that is a watch put together from parts belonging to at least two other watches.

That style of inner dial was used on the Worldtimer models, but I've never seen one in black. The printing doesn't seem clear enough to be a JLC product.

Also, I've never heard of any JLC that didn't have one of the names "Jaeger-LeCoutre", "Jaeger" or "LeCoultre" on the dial somewhere.

I hope it didn't sell for too much,

gatorcpa

With one notable exception... " Reverso ".

Best,

Nicolas

it was sold for 1500

I know several NSA that do not bear any mark on the dial or the glass... and they were sold as it by official AD.


credit p@trice

But I don't think it was purpose-made!
 
 
However, concerning vintage memovox, I know few pocket or travel memovox that had sterile dials. Here is a scan of the U.S. catalog from '67. Look at the first one.



But it does not change that I would not have bid on the watch above.

Best,

 

There were some US wrist alarms with sterile outer dials, but this is because the LeCoultre brand had been moved to the inner dial.
 Think DSA US version with 'sterile' outer dial, and other US-typical versions such as this one:

 

This definitively conforts me in thinking this WT is franken / fake   (and BTW, there are very few references which are documented as existing in WT, and this square one is not among them)

 

And if a further proof is needed, that very dial we see on the auctioned 'WT' memo was sold some time ago by a german seller (and it had the matching slate grey inner dial which it has since lost to a non-matching black WT)

I guess we now know where it ended...

 

Now, regarding sterile dials, I have a small memoclock which  has a sterile dial, only JaegerLeCoultre printed / engraved on the back...

(and obviously, there in this one there is no outer dial so no place to put the logo or it would be rotating)

On this one the dial in its totality is the alarm dial, interesting...

 

Here is another example of a sterile dail.

 

Interesting to see is that both steril and signed versions existed with the same case - but of course with different references...

 

 

Best

Blomman