Jaeger Lecoultre Diving Pro Geographic Master Compressor – Ref 159.T.39 in titanium

Jaeger Lecoultre Diving Pro Geographic Master Compressor – Ref 159.T.39 in titanium

Beautiful Jaeger Lecoultre Diving Pro Geographic watch with black round dial and batons for hours and Arabic numerals for 6 and 12 o’clock. Two sub-dials, seconds at 5 o’clock and GMT at 9 o’clock. At 6 o’clock comes the window for the world time and 3 ‘o’clock for the date. You have an outer blue and white ring for dept meters up to 80 meters. You have an outside rotating bezel graduated up to 45. The watch has 2 JLC rubber screws pushers. It is a titanium case with engrave outside “Jaeger Lecoultre – Swiss Made – Master Compressor – 1000 Hours – Diving Pro Geo – 159.T.39 – 30ATM – 2577833”. It is an automatic movement with caliber JLC 979. It has a titanium bracelet with JLC double clasp buckle.

HISTORY

The story of Lecoultre started in 1833 with Charles Antoine LeCoultre. In 1844 he invented the “millionometre” and then in 1851, he obtained a gold medal for his work and products at the universal exhibition. In 1877, LeCoultre built movement and between 1860 and 1925, it made 60,000 with various level of complication. 1925 is the merger with Edmond Jaeger. After this time came amazing pieces like the duoplan and the smallest caliber 101. Then came the Reverso in 1931, the Memovox in 1951, the Futurematic in 1953. In july 2000, the company became part of the Richemont group.

Technical details

Automatic movement with caliber Jaeger Lecoultre 979 with 29 jewels, 28,800 A/h and 48 hours of power reserve. The movement has 274 parts.

Measurements

Diameter excluding winding crown: 46.30mm
Length including lugs: 54mm