Lecoultre Compass Camera.
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...
I thought that bidding there was too risky... ;)
Cool piece - wonder how it came that they dabbled in that sphere...
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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.
I had read about this camera some time ago...
... 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...
What A Crazy And.,,
,,, 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
Very cool! Everything JLC made was so classy
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.
But this camera is solid and made entirely of aluminum not like the plastic
throwaways of today's tech. 80 years old and still functional. I don't think my iphone will last that long
