Jaeger Lecoultre Reverso Grande Date – Ref 240.8.15 in stainless steel – Full Set

Mint Jaeger Lecoultre Reverso Grande Date – Ref 240.8.15 in stainless steel – Full Set

Beautiful and mint condition Jaeger Lecoultre Reverso with reference 240.8.15 with gray rectangular dial. Inside the dial, you have a beautiful guilloche. The watch has black “Arabic” numerals and a sub dial for seconds at 4 o’clock. The window for the date is at 8 o’clock and the 8 days power reserve window is at 10 o’clock. The hands are black/blue with “Sword” style. The crown has the “JLC” logo. When the dial is reversed you have an exhibition sapphire case back to see the movement“ and in the back of the stainless steel case, it is engraved Jaeger Lecoultre – Reverso – 1000 hours control – 240.8.15 – 2287502 – Swiss Made”. It is a manual winding movement with caliber 875 and 25 jewels. The watch comes with a JLC brown alligator strap and JLC double clasp buckle. Full set including box, manual and warranty.

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

Manual winding movement with caliber 875 with 25 jewels, 28,800 A/h and 192 hours of power reserve.

Measurements

Diameter excluding winding crown: 29.50mm


Length including lugs: 46mm