| Author | Message | ||
     Kzs70 Junior Member Username: Kzs70 Post Number: 20 Registered: 05-2009 Rating: N/A |
Hello, Has anybody seen an E855 Memovox with such a blue dial? Does it look original, or repainted? Thanks, Zsolt  | ||
| Zaf Moderator Username: Zaf Post Number: 4217 Registered: 05-2003 Rating: N/A |
There is such a blue lapis dial yes, though I don't recall specifically if an E855 had it. I think it's yes though. | ||
| Sensas Junior Member Username: Sensas Post Number: 33 Registered: 05-2008 Rating: N/A |
Never seen before lapis dial Memovox, and another strange is the hand, IMHO not original | ||
| Zaf Moderator Username: Zaf Post Number: 4220 Registered: 05-2003 Rating: N/A |
I think Clavi has some experience with these. For a long time I only bought what I liked, and I can't see myself running around with a lapis watch! | ||
| Sensas Junior Member Username: Sensas Post Number: 34 Registered: 05-2008 Rating: N/A |
I think It's a "german restored watch" | ||
| Zaf Moderator Username: Zaf Post Number: 4223 Registered: 05-2003 Rating: N/A |
Well, they are the best at it! When the first generation guys like myself die off, no one will be able to tell fact from fiction. | ||
| Sensas Junior Member Username: Sensas Post Number: 35 Registered: 05-2008 Rating: N/A |
Hard to decide, I hope Clavi will tell the true  but for me, this watch is not OK | ||
| Clavi Member Username: Clavi Post Number: 59 Registered: 11-2006 Rating: N/A |
I know for sure that this dial did exist, at least as a 'factory part', and maybe as an original watch. It is likely that a small number of 855 with lapiz type dial were issued at some point. I do own not a blue 'simili lapiz dial' like this one, but a 'simili rosewood' or 'simili tortoise shell' dial 855 which is in the same configuration (but different colour), for which I am 100% sure that the watch is not a frankenwatch. So, I would tend to believe there could have been a very small number of theses 'simili lapiz' 855 produced. That being said, the hands of the above watch are definitively wrong (should be of the late 'baton' type), which casts a doubt on the total authenticity of the watch as being fully original. But I would tend to believe that both the watch and the dial are genuine Jaeger LeCoultre (just not sure if this very watch was initially sold with this dial). Not certain I did help a lot here with my comments here, but I think there is a high degree of authenticity in this dail and maybe the watch/dial combination.... Example of the so-called "lapiz' dial, likely factory original:   | ||
| Sensas Junior Member Username: Sensas Post Number: 36 Registered: 05-2008 Rating: N/A |
Thank you your comment Clavi | ||
| Sensas Junior Member Username: Sensas Post Number: 37 Registered: 05-2008 Rating: N/A |
and what about this "wonder" ?  | ||
| Clavi Member Username: Clavi Post Number: 60 Registered: 11-2006 Rating: N/A |
Dial is right, case is definitively wrong / remade... This watch has been on the auction site tens of times. it is dodgy today as much as it was the times before... | ||
| Kzs70 Junior Member Username: Kzs70 Post Number: 21 Registered: 05-2009 Rating: N/A |
Thank you for your useful comments! | ||
| Thomasm Junior Member Username: Thomasm Post Number: 14 Registered: 03-2009 Rating: N/A |
Thank you Clavi, your post is really interessant. I like these dials. | ||
| Rjkflyer New member Username: Rjkflyer Post Number: 2 Registered: 11-2009 Rating: N/A |
Looking at the second watch, would the fact that it has luminous hands suggest they are too late to match the watch correctly? Mind you, who's to say what the date of the 'watch' is?! | ||
| Clavi Member Username: Clavi Post Number: 63 Registered: 11-2006 Rating: N/A |
2nd watch is fake, so whatever hands it has doesn't really matter. However, all automatic memovoxes did have luminous hands, so these hands would be normal with this type of dial (which belongs to an E855 which had luminous hands for all dial versions) | ||
| Yangtse New member Username: Yangtse Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2010 Rating: N/A |
Presently a similar watch on sale in Paris : http://www.type22.com/detail.php5?m=379641 |