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LeCoultre Gunmetal-cased lady’s pocket watch
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THE STORY
A Small Watch, a World of Detail
Scenes imagined. Actual watch photographs are in Watch details.
Historical context
A small watch asks you to come closer. Its scale makes time feel personal: an object brought into the hand, read for a moment and put away again. The LeCoultre name leads back to Antoine LeCoultre’s workshop in Switzerland’s Vallée de Joux in 1833, and to a business whose history is closely bound to precision and the making of small components.
This watch
This piece is catalogued as a LeCoultre lady’s pocket watch in a gunmetal case. That is the present identification, rather than a complete account of its origin. Its photographs show an unsigned Roman dial and a movement signature consistent with LeCoultre & Cie. Further examination of the markings and measurements will help establish exactly where it sits in that history. We have no record of its first owner or how it was worn. Museum collections show that watches could be carried on chatelaines with other useful small objects, one of several ways personal time became part of dress.
An imagined moment
Imagine a quiet room before an outing: gloves laid beside a small travel case, a curtain stirring at an open window, someone taking a final moment before leaving. This is an imagined period scene, not the story of an identified wearer.
The watch offers a gentler scale of history, through an everyday object made to be kept close. Its own surfaces and signatures deserve the next look. Open the actual photographs to study them at leisure.
The actual watch
Available · $150
Buy Now →LeCoultre gunmetal-cased lady’s pocket watch. Offered by Balance of Time. Servicing has not yet been completed and will be completed upon sale. Please allow 7–10 days to complete a full service when servicing is not advertised as completed. This allowance is for servicing, not shipping. The asking price reflects the intended serviced, running condition; it does not mean service has already been performed.
Servicing pending; current running condition and timekeeping are not verified here. Allow 7–10 days for full service upon sale. See photographs for cosmetic appearance and ask about specific condition concerns before purchase. Existing wear is not represented as repaired. The watch is presented honestly in the accompanying photographs.
BRAND LeCoultre
MODEL Gunmetal-cased lady’s pocket watch
REFERENCE Unknown
