The 1940s and 1950s are often considered to be the climax of dress watches and military watches. During this time, the manually-wound movements reached a new level of maturity in terms of reliability, precision and dimensions. This particular timepiece represents the military era of JLC watches.

 

The functional perfection of this Jaeger-LeCoultre is no surprise; it achieves an astounding degree of simplicity and precision, all in one timepiece. The luminous stainless steel case with slightly down turned lugs and Railroad dial in a Caramel tone with blue radium filled hands and arabic hour markers with radium lume complement each other beautifully.

 

CASE:

• excellent overall condition, showing no traces of use
• 3- body stainless steel case
• professionally polished to JLC Factory specifications
• 31,5 mm (without crown) / 39 mm (lug-to-lug) / 16 mm (between lugs) / 10.1 mm thick
• year: 1940s
  
• total weight: 32 g

MOVEMENT:

• JLC Caliber P463 - manual wind
• 18 jewels, 18000 A/h, 40h power reserve
  
• professionally serviced 05/2024
• -19 sec/d / 300°

DIAL:

• original never touched caramel colored dial in great condition
• original hands and crown
• slight and evenly patina throughout the dial
• original and evenly aged radium lume on hands and dial

STRAP & BUCKLE:

• comes with brown aftermarket lizard leather strap fitting up to 21 cm wrist size / 2.9 mm thick
• comes with aftermarket steel buckle
  

 

GOLDAMMER REFERENCE: #456