Info about this LeCoultre

The LeCoultre Galaxy or Mystery Watch was not a “collaboration” between LeCoultre and Vacheron & Constantin, even though both names appear on the caseback of some examples. Like this:


It is a LeCoultre watch, with a Swiss made LeCoultre movement and a U.S. made case (usually 14K white gold). The movements were imported by Vacheron & Constantin - LeCoultre Watches, Inc. This was a corporate division of Longines-Wittnauer, Inc. This is all about marketing, nothing more.


The Vacheron factory in Switzerland has no connection with this particular model, although many Vacheron watches used LeCoultre ebauches.

In theory, there should be no difference in price between the engraved and plain back. In practice, people do pay a little bit more for that “name”, even though there is no real connection at the manufacturer level.

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