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Solid 18k YG JLC Memovox Worldtime

  1. Ohm Mar 15, 2016

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    It was my one timepiece collection.
     
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  2. dx009 Mar 15, 2016

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    Was ?

    Anyway, it looks weird.. :whistling:
     
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  3. gop76 Mar 15, 2016

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    Dial doesn't seem right to me...

    Did you buy that watch as "all original"?
     
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  4. Ohm Mar 15, 2016

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    The seller said it was original dial. I have other 2 like this, but they were Goldfilled and goldplate type. Thank you for your recommendation and value mention to me.@gop76
     
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  5. Tony C. Ωf Jury member Mar 15, 2016

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    I'm skeptical that either of those city discs are original.
     
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  6. ulackfocus Mar 16, 2016

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    Count me as being in the same camp as Tony and the others. Regular Memovoxes are often redialed as these to fetch more money. You might need to contact Richemont / JLC with the serial numbers and pictures of the internals to be sure they came from LeSentier as World Timer models.
     
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  7. JohnLy Mar 25, 2016

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    It was explained to me that on the world time the diameter cutout on the outer dial was much larger than the ones on the pictures shown above. I looked it up in Zaf basha's book and indeed you can see that the cutout goes all the way out to the date cutout leaving no room for hour marker at 3:00. see attached picture
    The book also said the world time was observed (key word) only on the srewback case ref E856 using the manual wind caliber 814 and the snapback case ref 3160. Caution is advised for case ref other than the E856 and 3160
     
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  8. Ohm Mar 26, 2016

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    Thank you @JohnLy
     
  9. MMMD unaffiliated curmudgeonly absurdist & polyologist Mar 26, 2016

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    Interesting. The Memovox Parking also has a larger aperture for the central disk. It was associated with case references 3161 and E856 (below).
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  10. Ohm Apr 3, 2016

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    Thank you all. This Memovox is also large central disk together.
     
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