Jaeger-LeCoultre has updated its mechanical alarm watch – the Memovox – with a new two-tone look. As well as being able to set a time-based alarm, the 40mm pink gold Master Control Memovox Timer also ...

In 1950, when Jaeger-LeCoultre debuted the first Memovox watch, the model’s signature alarm functionality—derived from minute repeaters of yore, but considerably less fussy—distinguished the brand as ...

Jaeger-LeCoultre has released two next-generation Master Control Memovox alarm watches, carrying on its mid-20th-century legacy in the audible watchmaking specialty. The Master Control Memovox ...

Consider the mechanical alarm, like the Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox, an oddly neglected complication that is also as old as the hills. I mean, like, even before smartphones. Plato indeed had a water ...

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The new watch, housed in a 40 mm case, is an update on a diving watch created in 1950. The original Memovox was notable for its mechanical alarm function and came to be used by divers who wanted to be ...

Before Antoine LeCoultre became a watchmaker, he devised a mechanism for music boxes. Cut from a single piece of metal and shaped like a comb, his invention improved sound quality and prevented ...

It was 1950 when Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced the first Memovox, introducing the world to the mechanical alarm function. The watch has since become the reference in wristwatch alarms. A 1956 version ...

If there’s one noise in the electric cacophony of daily life I’d like to do away with forever, it’s the alarm tone on my iPhone. I’ve tried the full gamut of digital wakey-wakeys, each one more ...