In 1950, when Jaeger-LeCoultre debuted the first Memovox watch, the model’s signature alarm functionality—derived from minute repeaters of yore, but considerably less fussy—distinguished the brand as ...

Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrates the 60 th anniversary of one of its most iconic and collectible models, the Memovox, with a special Boutique Edition. The watch is notable for its mechanical alarm function ...

Though comparatively dressy variants of the Memovox first hit the market in the early ’50s (and the first automatic caliber variant in 1956), the Polaris II (produced from 1970 to 1972) was a bold ...

Jaeger-LeCoultre has updated its mechanical alarm watch – the Memovox – with a new two-tone look. As well as being able to set a time-based alarm, the 40mm pink gold Master Control Memovox Timer also ...

The Swiss Grande Maison designed the Memovox in 1950 with the express purpose of helping businessmen remember their meetings through its chiming function. The Voice of Memory, as its name implied, was ...

Consider the mechanical alarm, like the Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox, an oddly neglected complication that is also as old as the hills. I mean, like, even before smartphones. Plato indeed had a water ...

This week, the Palexpo facility in Geneva, Switzerland, will become the center of the watch world for the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, or SIHH, a luxury watch show rivaled only by ...

It was 1950 when Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced the first Memovox, introducing the world to the mechanical alarm function. The watch has since become the reference in wristwatch alarms. A 1956 version ...

A mechanical alarm might not seem like the most useful watch complication when your iPhone and Amazon Echo can easily take care of getting you to that morning meeting on time, but to many of us ...

Anniversaries in the watchmaking world are an excuse to reinterpret iconic pieces. Jaeger-LeCoultre (JLC) is celebrating a landmark 185 years this year, and 50 years of Memovox Polaris, the diver’s ...

Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Polaris may not be a household name, its unique three-crown design, inner rotating bezel and relative rarity relegating it to the dive watch fringes. However, it’s a beautiful and ...