Jaeger-LeCoultre
Reference 190.8.96 Master Compressor Memovox Polaris | A limited edition stainless steel automatic wristwatch with date and alarm, Circa 2010
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June 17, 07:50 PM GMT
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4,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
Dial: black
Caliber: cal. 956 automatic, 23 jewels
Movement number: 3'540'173
Case: stainless steel, case back secured by four screws with snap on cover
Case number: 2’494’933, 287/768
Size: 42 mm diameter
Signed: case, dial and movement
Box: no
Papers: no
First launched in 1965, Jaeger-LeCoultre brought a major innovation to the booming dive watch market with the Memovox Polaris. Like all other landmark watches of the genre, it could track elapsed dive time, crucial for divers to time their dives and decompressions. However, the hidden ace up its sleeve was the 'Memovox' alarm feature, which also reminds the wearer when time is up through both vibrations and sounds. Easily identifiable through its three-crown design and internal rotating bezel, the Memovox Polaris stands as a mid-century design icon.
Created in tribute to that famed sixties design in a limited run of just 768 pieces, the present Memovox Polaris faithfully homages what made its grandfather reference so cool.