Jaeger-LeCoultre

Hello everyone,
I am interested in this watch but lack the knowledge to tell if the dial has been redone and was hoping some experts from the forum could help me out. Here are a couple photos...

Best regards,
Chris

Can you post plain pictures of the watch, a close up of the dial and movement?

What's the ref of this watch?

Best,

Nicolas This message has been edited by amanico on 2010-03-21 04:40:15

Nice watch!

Best,

Nicolas

about the back case....

the word "metal" ??? plus the crown is too exposed.....

cheers

Having a base-metal spacer ring that was marked 'metal'.  In the days before display backs, nobody but the watchmaker saw it anyway

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I did not know...

what about the crown?

cheers

but the arrangement of the crown on a long-looking stem looks kosher to me.  On highly-tapered cases, there is frequently a largish cutout for the stem in the spacer, to give a but of "slop" in getting it all together.  Sounds ugly, but i've seen it before and it's not a bad thing.

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Not a JLC, sadly, but a contemporary watch of almost the same quality


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should it be a chinese mechanical replica? poor reproduction of the JLC logotype on the dial, poor hands, and... too shiny mecanism! take care... best. O

I've never seen a fake with a movement that correct.  Not seeing the entirety of the dial or the case back I wouldn't say it real, but we have no evidence yet that it is fake.  A flash on a small camera can make a movement much brighter than one is used to

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This watch is the ref 2291, and from what I can see in those pictures, it is 100% correct.

In addition, this type of dial, with both positive  (applied) and negative (groove) index are very difficult to re-do properly, and this would be noticeable if this dial had been redone.

Movement is the correct one, and as good as it should be.

Definitively a nice classic JLC, so don't be scared by it being too nice or too clean to be true, it just is !

 

You knew the reference number just by those photos, very impressive. What do you think now that I have uploaded a few more photos?

Best

... is that the dial has been repainted, the crown may or may not be original (could be a factory JLC replacement), and the movement is 100% correct for the watch.  The printing on the logo seems a bit uneven, which would be quite unlike normal JLC quality control.

I don't think a redial should be a big deal with this particular style, as there is so little printed on the dial in the first place.

Hope this helps,

gatorcpa