$17,400
Jaeger LeCoultre Polaris 1st generation Jaeger LeCoultre, Memovox Polaris, Ref. E 859. Made circa 1965. Fine, center seconds, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with date, alarm and 2 crowns. Accompanied by a Jaeger LeCoultre service invoice (dated January 21, 2010) and a service box. Two-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, the crown at 2 activates the central revolving alarm dial. Black with applied Arabic and baton indexes, inner revolving disk with applied luminous and minute divisions for the alarm, outer dot minute divisions with 5-minute/ seconds markers and Arabic quarters, aperture for the date. Luminous steel hands. Cal. 825, 14 ‘’’, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 16 mm. Notes Launched in 1965 as a successor to the Memovox DeepSea, the Polaris was Jaeger LeCoultre's response to the ever-increasing popularity of recreational scuba diving. Developed for the American market and designed in a massive 42 mm case, it featured an internal revolving bezel as well as an alarm function and a date. Equipped with the Jaeger caliber 825 that revolutionized the watch world a few years before as the world’s first automatic alarm watch, the Polaris offered divers reliability and endurance. It was fitted with a plain full back (later examples were drilled for bett
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-03-10
