E859 Jaeger-Lecoultre Polaris

E859-Jaeger-Lecoultre-Polaris

From the very start, the Polaris was a dive watch quite unlike any other. If any watchmaker knowns how to make a fashionably late entrance, it’s la grande maison, JLC. Diving watches with their extreme water resistance and externally rotating bezel were all the rage by the second half of the 1950s. In 1959, Lecoultre…

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Tropical E859 Lecoultre Memovox Polaris

Tropical-E859-Lecoultre-Memovox-Polaris

If any watchmaker knowns how to make a fashionably late entrance, it’s la grande maison, JLC. Diving watches with their extreme water resistance and externally rotating bezel were all the rage by the second half of the 1950s. In 1959, Lecoultre entered the fray with a differentiating design. Instead of using a rotating bezel to…

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1 of 768: Jaeger Lecoultre Polaris Limited 190.8.96

Jaeger-Lecoultre-Memovox-Limited-Edition-190.8.96

If I’ve featured JLC a little heavily in the last month, I apologize. In my defense, I’m not sure you can feature JLC too heavily. There have been a few very appetizing references surfacing lately. I remember a period of four months where there wasn’t a single Polaris LE 190.8.96 on Chrono24. I checked back…

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