empressissi™ is pleased to offer this early gents chronograph with the Landeron-189 manual wind movement with 60 seconds/30 minutes counters and date. It is all original, ready to wear or add to your collection!
The watch houses a classic Landeron 189 caliber running on 17 jewels with small seconds complication shown in the register near '9' and two pushers operating (1) a cycle of 60sec on the Sweep hand position counting telemeter and (2) a 30min cycle on the '3' position, with all functions working properly. It also has a date on the 12 position which changes properly around midnight and is not quickset. It is cased in a gold plated 20 micron yellow tone case with stainless back, has a mint crystal and good crown.
The dial is a factory original silver sunburst with raised baton markers in classic 60s design and overall excellent condition with original set of hands.
This classic Le Jour chronograph watch measures 37mm side to side (excluding crown) and 45mm from top lug to bottom lug.
Attached to this watch is a standard length brand new TIMEPIECE 18mm wide, quality padded genuine leather band in dark brown tone with anti-allergic buckle in white tone.
Vintage watches are smaller than today's standards; To avoid the inconvenience of returns merely due to wrong size expectations, Please study the listed sizes and keep in mind that in most cases, vintage watches will be smaller than today's standards and are unlikely to fit a large wrist. For your convenience, and to better understand the proportions of vintage watches sizes, download and print a copy of our unique watch size reference PDF page.
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