Vintage Jaeger le Coultre Memovox World Time Anniversary Alarm E855

A stunning, seldom-seen vintage American market Jaeger  le Coultre World Time Alarm 125th Anniversary edition with black dial, arabic numerals and 37mm stainless steel case. Presented in excellent vintage condition, this model E855 is a real collector’s item and especially rare with tis dial configuartion. No box or papers but we supply a one year warranty from date of purchase.

More info: until 1980, all Jaeger-LeCoultre models including the Memovox, were sold as “LeCoultre”. For most of these watches the cases were locally produced in North America and distributed by Vacheron & Constantin LeCoultre, a subsidiary of Longines-Wittnauer, who also handled the final assembly there.

Background context: In 1937, the collaboration between Jaeger and LeCoultre led to renaming the company Jaeger-LeCoultre; however from 1932 to 1976, due to the U.S. Smoot Hawley Tariff Act, the Company began to exclusively export watch movements out of Switzerland for the US/Canadian markets, rather than complete watches. These movements were fitted into locally manufactured cases in North America and sold under the name LeCoultre by Vacheron-LeCoultre, a subsidiary of Longines-Wittnauer. Only after 1985 was the name Jaeger-LeCoultre adopted uniformly worldwide.