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Number …..031511.PM811U0.67 Item: VINTAGE ANTIQUE 1910-15 LIP REGULATEUR W/
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Description of item:
VINTAGE 1910-15 W.W.I ERA FRENCH LIP REGULATEUR WITH PRE-W.W.II 1930'S WRIST LUG
CONVERSION -Diameter (with crown), 54.00 mm, Diameter (without crown): 50.00 mm,
Watch crystal diameter: 43.00 mm, Thickness:13.00 mm. ATTACHED IS A DOUBLE
CONTRAST STITCHED & PADDED BLACK FINISHED LUXURY VINTAGE STYLE MILITARY
CHRONOGRAPH STRAP WITH STAINLESS STEEL PUSH BUTTON DEPLOYMENT. DIAL IS
DESIGND IN A BLACK & WHITE REGULATEUR STYLE WITH BUTLER STYLE OUTER MINUTE TRACK AND
DUAL BLACK WHITE ENAMELED TRIMMED & NUMBERED SUB-DIALS AND BLACK CIRCLED WHITE PAINTED
ENAMEL MINUTE NUMERALS. DIAL SIGNED REGULATEUR LIP WITH LARGE GOLD MINUTE HAND TRAVERSING
THE OUTER MINUTE MARKERS WITH GOLD HOUR HAND TRAVERSING THE CIRCULAR HOUR REGISTER WITH
THIN GOLD SECOND HAND TRAVERSING THE SECONDS REGISTER. HE WATCH SPORTS A FANCY ORIGINAL
WINDING & SETTING CROWN. CASE IS AN ORIGINAL THREE PIECE ORIGINAL GENUINE LIP DOUBLE
HINGED WATCH CASE IS CONSTRUCTED OF NICKEL PLATED STEEL. OUTER CASE LID IS SIGNED
ARGENTAN [ ARGENTUM FRANCE ] GF 527846. INNER CASE LID PROTECTS THE MOVEMENT FROM DUST AND
MOISTURE. AND IS ALSO SIGNED 527846..THE HIGH GRADE.JEWELED MANUAL WIND.GOLD PLATED.LEVER
ESCAPEMENT MOVEMENT WITH BI-METALLIC MICROMETE REGULATOR IS STAMPED L F. CASE & LUGS
ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. POCKET WATCH. CONDITION IS EXCELLENT TO FINE
Estimated Retail Replacement Value $ 1499.00 |
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Emmanuel Lipmann of Alsace, France was the son of a watchmaker in
1807. In 1867, Ernst Lipmman, his grandson, set up a factory in Besançon, France. By 1890
the company had grown and was employing 35 people, half of them home-workers. About 1900,
Emmanuel’s sons Camile and Ernest took over the running of the company. The sons
brought in facilities for producing their own pocket and wrist watch movements. The brand
name of Lip was introduced in 1906. About the 1930’s, the company started to
concentrate on producing precision watches, some of these were endorsed by the ‘National
Observatory’ in Besançon.
In 1936 a Lipmman chronometer set a new record for accuracy.
In 1945 the company was passed to the next generation and was controlled by Fred Lip,
grandson of Ernst. Fred was a watchmaker by trade. The company had now grown to about 650
employees and produced about a thousand watches a day.
SOME EVENTS:
1807 - creates a chronometer watch that is presented to Napoléon
Bonaparte
1896 - the "LIP chronometer" is born.
1914 - manufacture the first wristwatches ordered by the French Army for
its Artillery officers.
1939 - manufactures flight watches for French aircraft.
1948 - presents Mr. Winston Churchill with a golden T18 LIP oblong model.
1952 - launches “Electronic" model worn by the French
President General de Gaulle and U.S. President Mr. D. Eisenhower.
1973 - the first French quartz watch.
1994 - On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Europe
presents U.S. President Bill CLINTON with a Commemorative Watch, the only
gift Clinton’s official visits that he keeps for himself.
