Jaeger-LeCoultre

This is something which always fascinated me. The fact that Lecoultre made so many things, in the first half of the XXth Century. Watches, of course, clocks, naturally, but also a... Camera, in the late Thirties. Small as a packet of cigarettes! One of th...  

Cool piece - wonder how it came that they dabbled in that sphere...

Well some of us take wrist shot of watch with finger holding cigarette/cigar with a camera. So some link there. Hehehe. Tks for sharing.

... and it has been haunting my greedy mind since them. How nice to add one in our collection! isn´t it Nicolas? I don´t know how many examples were built, but I bet they were a very few. I would like to know more about this rare incursion of JLC in the W... 

,,, Amazing artifact. Just like Lecoultre to be ahead of its time with all the built in filters, et al. I am curious to know which film format it uses... - Scott

Also ironic that the functions of both watches and camera have converged into one form in today's smartphones! Back in the early 20th Century, both of these activities were quite discreet.

throwaways of today's tech. 80 years old and still functional. I don't think my iphone will last that long

LeCoultre Compass Camera