Posts Tagged ‘E558’
E558 ‘Barracuda’ Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Mariner
JLC have a really rather robust history of distinct dive watches, but one is almost always left out—quite unfairly. I suspect because ‘Deep Sea Master Mariner E558’ was a bit of a mouthful (brevity is lost on the Swiss), the watch you’re looking at goes by its nickname today: Barracuda. Things called Baracuda are inherently…
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I suspect because ‘Deep Sea Master Mariner E558’ was a bit of a mouthful (brevity is lost on the Swiss), the watch you’re looking at goes by its nickname today: Barracuda. Things called Baracuda are inherently cool. Hemi Plymouths drag racing around Detroit in the 70s. Blancpain German military divers. And that song by Heart…
Read MoreJaeger-Lecoultre E558 Deep Sea Master Mariner ‘Barracuda’
The only watch to hold a candle to the European market Deepsea Alarm in terms of rarity or beauty (to my eye) is this: the JLC E558 DeepSea Master Mariner—better known as the Barracuda. Brevity is lost on the Swiss. The patented Super Compressor-cased model was produced from 1967 to 1974 for a total of…
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