1930s rectangular steel vintage Jaeger LeCoultre watch

Date:           1930s

Case:            Stainless steel,22 x 37.5 mm (including lugs)

Movement: Calibre 410

Dial:             Silvered dial, Arabic numerals

Lugs:            17mm

A 1930s, stainless steel rectangular vintage Jaeger LeCoultre watch. The case measures 22 x 37.5 mm (including lugs), with 17mm lugs. The case is signed Staybrite, Fab Suisse and numbered. The calibre 410, manual wind movement is signed Jaeger LeCoultre, Swiss and numbered. The silvered dial has lumed Arabic numerals with subsidiary seconds and fine blued steel hands. The dial is signed LeCoultre above the centre.

 

Jaeger-LeCoultre

In 1833, Antoine LeCoultre, a self-taught watchmaker and inventor, transformed his family’s barn into a workshop in the Vallée de Joux, Switzerland. LeCoultre was obsessed with accuracy and created the tools needed to produce the smallest parts for his timepieces. The LeCoultre family opened the first watch manufactory in 1866 in the Vallee de Joux, LeCoultre & Cie..

In 1903 Jaques-David LeCoultre and Edmond Jaeger (a French jeweller) began working together to produce the thinnest watch movements in the world. The Reverso watch was created in 1931 out of a challenge to produce a watch that could withstand the intensity of a polo match!

In 1937 the company was officially renamed Jaeger-LeCoultre.

The company has patented over 430 inventions and mastered the manufacture of complex watch complications. Jaeger-LeCoultre has created over 1400 calibres of watch movements over the years.

“The Valley du Joux is where every single Jaeger-LeCoultre timepiece is born, crafted and perfected. It is here, intros quiet, serene valley, that the Maison has perfected the true art of Haute Horologerie.”