Friends,
Most of you have realized, that within my personal fav collecting brand,
JLC,the species of the Alarm watches, or as LGM marketed it,
the Memovox series starting from the very early Fifties,
up to now, have always had a special attraction to me.
Here find some early ad-pages from catalogs & papers
about the introduction of the Memovoxes ( Credit all ads: Blomman)
== 3 ads of MMV introduction:
The Intro at the Basel fair
The essence of a Memovox
A Memovox on Duty
While I have shared here some classic Automatic samples, such as the
References E 855, preferably in black, which have succeeded
as clean, unobtrusive, but often quite elegant samples,
without being over the top.
Find here 2 examples of these, such as the E 855, the one here in all black,
the other one in silver/white dial, with the so called "Ebene" indices:
due to their inner Ebony parts, embedded within each silver
index on the dial.
Memovox E 855 , the "Black Knight":
== Black MMV
A real cool, but elegant appeal.
Memovox E855, with typical kind of Ebene indices:
== White/silver E 855, Ebene / long indices
Actually, known are these longer rectangular indices, as also shorter ones, ( such as one shown by Blomman a while ago), with the Ebony parts, more
in a block format, but again dark within silver indices.
Furthermore, and on another Memovox ticket, the E 875, a so called
Speedbeat movement, pacing at around 28800 beats / min,
were also MMVs.
These were produced in large numbers and in various dial
configurations and colors.
Often in white/silver, or dual-tone blue on white or blue/blue have exhibited
their special spell and the collectors' attention.
== Please continue in Part 2 ! == Text is also here, but pics only there (?)
== E 875 Speedbeat Trio
Here today, after these more general lines, including some very typical examples,
I would like to share a view backwards, to the beginnings of the Memovox story:
This was introduced in the early Fifties, and although I do not have the full
spectrum of these early ones, here just 2 typical ones, I was lucky enough to find,
and fall upon them.. .
== The early Memovoxes
The first one, the one which started the Memovox story & history, was a manual wind,
with a very peculiar, cylindrical style of lugs, also named "hooded lugs",
which are very specific for these early-comers.
My ss example here shows a nice dial patination and a creamy alarm disc,
contributing to its charm.
The RG hands and indices make a truly charming warm impression of the dial
But as I have been furtheron very lucky again, to have found another early one,
again the case ss, but indices & hands in white gold.
== JLC Memovox 1282/A
== Here the Duo of early Memovoxes
Hope you liked a bit the view back into
the early times of Memovoxes,
Best, hs
PS: pls note : unfortunately some pics could not
be properly uploaded ( E875 Trio, and the
early MMV Duo: E 3150 & 1282).
- I will have to amend these few pics in a separate post below
Sorry for the inconvenience in looking !
This message has been edited by hs111 on 2016-07-05 09:02:48
This message has been edited by hs111 on 2016-07-05 09:05:52