LeCoultre MEMOVOX circa 1960s cal K910

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JLC LeCoultre Memovox alarm circa 1960s
JLC K910 movement
Hand wind movement
17 jewels
Gold filled case is 34mm with 18mm lugs
Winds sets and runs and keeps good time
Alarm winds and sets and works correctly

Asking $1380 CAD shipped Or Best Offer

 

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I've been talking with a fellow CWC member who knows JLC watches and he's enlightened me about the value of this watch.

The LeCoultre Memovox were JLC movements and dials imported into America and cased in Star Case Co. cases by Longines-Wittnauer, the American importer of JLC watches.

The collaboration between Jaeger and LeCoultre led to the company being officially renamed Jaeger-LeCoultre in 1937. However, from 1932 to approximately 1985, due to the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act, watches were cased in locally produced cases in North America and sold under the name LeCoultre by the company Vacheron-LeCoultre, a subsidiary of Longines-Wittnauer, with slightly different case designs. After 1985, Jaeger-LeCoultre was adopted uniformly worldwide. According to factory records, the last movement to be used in an American LeCoultre watch was shipped out of Le Sentier in 1976.

The LeCoultre models have the same movements but not Swiss cases so don't have the same market value as the Swiss cased JLC Memovox watches.

This is still a JLC Memovox, just not a Swiss cased Memovox.

So I'm going to lose money on this one, but I'm open to offers and as usual I'm a motivated seller.

 

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Here's some better pics

 

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I'll start the ball rolling by lowering the price to $1050 CAD shipped or best offer.

 

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Like to get this one sold today so if there are any offers out there I'd like to hear them. Will be posting it on another forum tonight if there's no interest here.

 

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Last price reduction for this listing:

$900 CAD e-transfer shipped or best offer.

 

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I dropped this watch off with a friend who has the tools and experience to remove the movement from the case and he sent me some pics.

First off the movement is a K814 not a K910 as I was told by the previous owner. The K designates the Kif shock protection. That dates the watch from 1953 to 1964.

I'll be leaving this one here for a little while longer in case anyone is still interested.

 

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For those who have asked I don't believe the hour and minute hand are original to the watch and the alarm does work correctly.

 

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Sunday afternoon bump

 

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$800 CAD e-transfer shipped. That's below market value for these Memovox watches.

 

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$720 CAD e-transfer shipped.

 

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$680 shipped until finally sold

Losing $400 at this price

 

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Movement is running +6 seconds per day (14 hours on the wrist 10 hours dial up overnight.)

900 views and over 20 PMs someone out there wants this watch so make a reasonable offer and it's yours.