BRAND/JENAMA: AUTHENTIC VINTAGE JAEGER LECOULTRE LARGE TANQ GENTS WRISTWATCH
MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS
CIRCA/TAHUN: 1940's
MODEL: TANQ
CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACRYLIC
MOVEMENT/ENJIN: JAEGER LECOULTRE 17 JEWELS MANUAL WINDING MOVEMENT BY VACHERON CONSTATIN AXN CAL. 460/CT
DIAL COLOR: GOLD TONE SUB-SECOND AT 6:00
FUNCTION/FUNGSI: HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND
HANDS/JARUM: GOLD TONE METAL HANDS
MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: RAISED GOLD TONE ARABIC AND ARROW HEAD MARKERS
CASING : 10K GOLD FILLED TOP AND STAINLESS STEEL BACK
LUGS: 18mm
MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 35mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 39mm LUG TO LUG
BEZEL: -
DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: -
CROWN: UNSIGNED ORIGINAL GP CROWN
STRAP/TALI: GENUINE LIZARD LEATHER BAND
SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5" FULL LENGHT
DISCONTINUED LECOULTRE MODEL... RAREST!
EXCELLENT CONDITION, KEEPING GOODTIME AND RECENTLY SERVICED
PRICE/HARGA: (SOLD TO TN SHEIKH FROM PJ)
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LE COULTRE WATCHES
A
brilliant inventor and self-taught watchmaker, Antoine-LeCoultre
founded his first workshop in 1833, following the invention of a machine
to produce watchmaking pinions. Ever since, the Manufacture
Jaeger-Lecoultre has developed constantly around the founder's original
workshops.
Surprisingly
enough, it was neither a physicist nor an engineer who first measured
the micron; it was Antoine LeCoultre, in 1844. He had created watch
components that were so perfect no tool could actually detect their
degree of inaccuracy. He followed that up by inventing the world's most
accurate instrument: the Millionometer, which served as a benchmark for
over half a century.
In
1847, LeCoultre created a revolutionary system that was to do away with
the need for keys to rewind and set watches. His simple and brilliant
solution was a pushbutton that activated a lever to switch from one
function to another. It was the first keyless winding mechanism, and the
first reliable system that eliminated the need for keys to wind or set a
watch.
In
1866, when Swiss watchmaking was still structured around small home-run
workshops, Antoine LeCoultre and his son Elie decided to bring together
under one rood the many skills involved in making watches, and
installed a steam-driven machine to operate their new tools. LeCoultre
& Cie thus became the first Manufacture in the Vallée de Joux.
It
was in 1903 when the Parisian Edmond Jaeger set Swiss watchmakers the
challenge of producing ultra-thin calibres. It would lead to the Calibre
145, the world's thinnest mechanical movement, measuring no more than
1.38 mm, and the friendship of Antoine LeCoultre's grandson,
Jacques-Devid LeCoultre. These two men would give a rise to a range of
horological wonders, and eventually the birth of the Jaeger-LeCoultre
brand in 1937.
In
the year 1908, the Manufacture created its first rectangular-shaped
calibre in response to the challenge created to miniaturize watches to
wear on the wrist. By the "Roaring 20s" (1920s), very small ladies'
wristwatches were all the rage, but extreme miniaturization always led
to a loss of reliability and precision. The Duoplan brilliantly solved
this problem by arranging its parts on split levels. It would lead to
the world's smallest movement, Calibre 101. Outdoing the Calibre 145,
Jaeger-Lecoultre miniaturized the Duoplan caliber to the extreme,
weighing in at barely one gram and comprising of 74 parts. Its record is
still unmatched to this date.
Since
its founding, the Manufacture has created and produced over 1,000
different calibres in many varieties. Over 200 patented inventions have
contributed to the progress of Swiss watchmaking in the field of
movements, as well as that of cases, bracelets, dials, and watch
functions.
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