Show your Jaeger LeCoultre (Jaegers & LeCoultres too)

banshee
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Just found this Jaeger at Crownandcaliber: USD 12k

Didn't know they made meteorite dial watches. Very good looking in my opinion!
 
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Upcoming #Moonwatchuniverse article " First Watch"
How 65 years ago the NASA STG - Space Task Group for project Mercury concluded a cooperation with #LeCoultre to provide the very first official wrist watches to the NASA astronauts.
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SpeedyPhill SpeedyPhill
Upcoming #Moonwatchuniverse article " First Watch"
How 65 years ago the NASA STG - Space Task Group for project Mercury concluded a cooperation with #LeCoultre to provide the very first official wrist watches to the NASA astronauts.
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Were these watches waterproof?
 
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@spacemission
Indeed, these "Mercury 7" LeCoultre were based upon the LeCoultre Quartermaster and NASA STG requested 3 features: anti-magnetic, no radioactive lume and waterproof (locking ring caseback).
These 34 mm stainless steel 24 hours dial & movement wrist watches were worn between September 1959 and October 1963... training & special events only.
Anyway LeCoultre watches became the very first official wrist watches for NASA astronauts!
 
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SpeedyPhill SpeedyPhill
Indeed, these "Mercury 7" LeCoultre were based upon the LeCoultre Quartermaster and NASA STG requested 3 features: anti-magnetic, no radioactive lume and waterproof (locking ring caseback).
These 34 mm stainless steel 24 hours dial & movement wrist watches were worn between September 1959 and October 1963... training & special events only.
Anyway LeCoultre watches became the very first official wrist watches for NASA astronauts!

Thank you. Do you own anyone of these?
 
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I'm looking at. Lifetime main spring and caseback vostok style, interesting.
 
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My new JLC MUT 38mm. Love it. Freshly serviced from JLC
lovely ATMOS.

I need an ATMOS in my life...!!!
 
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sah sah
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New to me JLC Polaris Memovox Mariner. Really like it.


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The blue looks fantastic in the sunlight.
 
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Ahh, my favourite brand (am I allowed to say that on this forum??!!)

Here's my collection

Master Geographic
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Memovox E875 Speed Beat
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Memovox 3151 (this one is up for sale on C24 and eBey)
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Thank you. Do you own anyone of these?
As many members know here very well, I mostly own lots of old time-period spaceflight crew & mission photos/lithographs rather than watches...
Besides my printed article, Dutch-based Fratellowatches is going to bring an article about the very first officially NASA-issued astronaut watches (September 1959) based on the LeCoultre Quartermaster... long before Omega was issued in June 1965 😉
 
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I think this is good place to link the discussion starter from several years ago:

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Thread 'Want to see a real astronaut's watch?' ·
You could have bought one last weekend:

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From the Estate of Sen. John Glenn...
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gatorcpa
 
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I recently found locally this Futurematic E501 from 1957, in yellow 18kt gold:

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