{"product_id":"full-hunter-in-18ct-gold-champagne-dial-boxed-1976","title":"Full Hunter in 18ct Gold, Champagne Dial, Boxed, 1976","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSolid 18ct gold from the maker the trade calls the watchmaker's watchmaker, still in the box it left the shop in. A name and a date sit engraved inside the case.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1976 nobody needed a pocket watch, which is exactly what makes this one interesting: it was chosen. A full hunter in solid 18ct gold from Jaeger-LeCoultre, bought as a gift and engraved inside the case, à Alain, le 7 Août 1976, at a time when a pocket watch was a deliberate piece of formality rather than a necessity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case rewards the choice. The lid springs open on its button and closes flush with a clean snap, satin-brushed outside and mirror-polished within, and beneath the back sits a second extravagance: a dust cover in solid 18ct gold, engine-turned and signed. Gold inside as well as out is why the watch weighs 48.5 grams at only 41.9mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe champagne dial is finished with a fine vertical satin grain that moves with the light, crisp black Roman numerals around a plain minute track, slim blackened lance hands, and the JL badge above the full signature beneath twelve: mid-1970s Geneva dress style at its most restrained. The 17-jewel manual movement is clean, bright and running well; the crown and stem have been refitted, and the watch winds and sets as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFifty years on it still keeps its original presentation box, the accessory that almost always disappears first. A dated inscription, its own box and a case gold through and through make it one of the most complete late pocket watches in the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the inscription and box are set out in The Inscription.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jaeger-LeCoultre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54467363504467,"sku":"PW-0120","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/jaeger-lecoultre-18ct-gold-pocket-watch-10_hero.jpg?v=1785678685","url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/products\/full-hunter-in-18ct-gold-champagne-dial-boxed-1976","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}