AUTHENTIC VINTAGE JAEGER-LECOULTRE GENTS MILITARY WRISTWATCH

BRAND/JENAMA: AUTHENTIC VINTAGE JAEGER-LECOULTRE GENTS MILITARY WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1940's

MODEL: MILITARY

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACRYLIC

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: JAEGER-LECOULTRE 17 JEWELS MANUAL WINDING MOVEMENT CAL. 478 S/N30882

DIAL COLOR: CREAM TONE

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: MILITARY

HANDS/JARUM: LUMINOUS BROWN BLUE METAL HANDS (NO LONGER LUMED)

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: LUMINOUS ARABIC MILITARY MARKERS (NO LONGER LUMED)

CASING : SOLID STAINLESS STEEL/KELULI SEPENUHNYA

LUGS: 16mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 33mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 36mm LUG TO LUG

BEZEL: SOLID STAINLESS STEEL

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: S/N 298511

CROWN: ORIGINAL CROWN - UNSIGNED

STRAP/TALI: GENUINE BLACK RUBBER STRAP

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5" FULL LENGHT

DISCONTINUED LECOULTRE MODEL... RAREST!

BEAUTIFUL PATINA DIAL, GOOD CONDITION AND KEEPING TIME

PRICE/HARGA: USD1,500 (NEGOTIABLE/BOLEH DIRUNDING)

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LE COULTRE WATCHES

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.

VERY RARE US ARMY TRUE 24HRS MILITARY GENT WRISTWATCH

VINTAGE SWISS MADE ELGIN MILITARY DAYNIGHT TRUE 24HRS FOR US ARMY GENTS WRISTWATCH CIRCA 1960'S

MILITARY ISSUED TYPE A-17A US ARMY

VERY CLEAN BLACK/WHITE DAYNIGHT DIAL

CRYSTAL IS CLEAN, NO CRACK NO SCRATCHES

THE FRENCH EBAUCH QUARTZ MOVEMENT

LUMINESCENT SILVER TONE BLACK STEEL METAL HANDS 

24 HRS ARABIC MARKERS

ALL STAINLESS STEEL ROUND CASE MEASURES APPROXIMATELY 36mm INCLUDING THE CROWN AND 39mm LUG TO LUG

UNSIGNED CROWN

BLACK TEXTILE BAND FITS 8.5" WRIST

VERY RARE DISCONTINUED MODEL... !

WORKING CONDITION & KEEPING TIME

PRICE : USD650 (NEGOTIABLE) 

AUTHENTIC VINTAGE GLYCINE TANQ GENTS WRISTWATCH

BRAND/JENAMA : GLYCINE

MODEL : TANQ DRESS WATCH

MOVEMENT/ENJIN :MECHANICAL WINDING

ORIGIN/BUATAN : SWISS
NO. SIRI/SERIAL NO. : 838 522

CIRCA/TAHUN : 1960'S

CASING/KEMASAN : GOLD PLATED SOLID STAINLESS STEEL

MOVEMENT/PERGERAKAN : INHOUSE SWISS 17 JEWELS GLYCINE MANUAL WINDING
DIAL: SILVER TEXTURED DIAL
MARKER/TANDA WAKTU: STICK/BLACK
HANDS/JARUM: BLACK /LOGAM HITAM

MARKINGS/TANDA JENAMA : DIAL/MOVEMENT

LENS/CERMIN : ACRYLIC

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN : 32mm w/o CROWN AND 34mm LUG TO LUGAND

CONDITION/KONDISI : NEW OLD STOCK/BARU STOK LAMA
PRICE: USD200 (NEGOTIABLE) 

HISTORY OF GLYCINE WATCHES

In the 70s, the Swiss watch industry – late in introducing quartz movements – was hit by the proliferation of quartz watches from the Far East. The technological revolution brought about by the quartz movement, together with the worldwide recession and a massive increase in value of the Swiss franc, pushed many manufacturers to the brink of disaster.

The products that had earned Glycine such an excellent reputation, namely high-quality mechanical watches and above all automatic watches, were suddenly no longer in general demand. Customers everywhere were buying Japanese quartz watches or American digital LED watches. The lucrative business with highly-regarded automatic watches was over, and these were now being sold off at give-away prices.

The market went through a turnaround in its values, a tendency which further intensified as the price for the initially exorbitantly expensive quartz watches consistently dropped to a level where it finally drove even the cheap pin-pallet (Roskopf) mechanical movements out of the market. Many market shares were lost, the industry entered into a crisis that lasted six years and cost roughly 60,000 jobs.

Glycine too suffered heavily but managed to fight on. In 1984, soldiering on with a reduction in staff, Glycine was sold to Hans Brechbühler, who had been working for years with Glycine in a loose cooperation based on the joint development and exchange of watch models.

Followin, the purchase of Glycine in 1984, Brechbühler switched over to the brand watch business, an entirely new experience for him. Progressively, new products were developed that enabled Glycine to work successfully in countries such as Scandinavia, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Germany.

AUTHENTIC RARE GRUEN ARTDECO TONNEAU CASE GENT WRISTWATCH

 

BRAND/JENAMA: VINTAGE GRUEN ARTDECO TONNEAU CASE GENTS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1935 based on case no 885-46 stamped on the caseback

MODEL: ARTDECO

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACRYLIC

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: SWISS AGLEAR GRUEN GUILD 15 JEWELS MANUAL WINDING MOVEMENT CAL. 115

DIAL COLOR: YELLOWISH WHITE ENAMEL

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: HOUR AND MINUTE AND SUBSECOND

HANDS/JARUM: LUMINOUS BLUE METAL (NO LONGER LUMED)

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: BOLD LUMINESCENT ARABIC

CASING : 14K WHITE GOLD FILLED

LUGS: 16mm UNIQUE DESIGN HARD TO FIND

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 32mm DIAMETER EXCLUDING CROWN and 42mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: GRUEN

CROWN: WHITE GOLD FILLED

STRAP/TALI: NEW BLACK RUBBER LEATHER BAND

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

WORKING CONDITION, KEEPING TIME, DISCONTINUED MODEL & HARD TO FIND

PRICE/HARGA: PERSONAL COLLECTION BUT WILLING TO LET GO FOR USD500

Gruen Watch Company

One of the most deeply-held myths about Gruen is that Gruen and Rolex at one time manufactured movements for each other's watches. Both firms did use some of the same movements—the best known examples are the Gruen Techi-Quadron and its twin, the Rolex Prince. In reality, these movements were manufactured by a third company, Aegler, who was a very close neighbor to the Gruen Precision Factory.

Gruen and Rolex were Aegler's biggest customers, and were both large shareholders as well—the full company name at one time was, Aegler, Societe Anonyme, Fabrique des Montres Rolex & Gruen Guild A. Gruen and Rolex both occasionally showed pictures of the huge Aegler factory in their advertising, making the implication that this was a Gruen- or Rolex-owned facility, although ownership at the time was divided among Gruen, Rolex and Aegler itself. Gruen sold their Aegler shares in the 1930s, after they moved all production to the Precision Factory. After this time, Aegler became increasingly tied to Rolex through the sale of stock. Today, the main Rolex building in Biel is the old Aegler factory, and though it is now owned by Rolex, it is still run by the Aegler family.

This article taken from Complete Price Guide to Watches, American Wriswatches, Rolex Wristwatches: Best of Time and Gruen Master Book and Dr Ranfitt Website about the movement