The 1950s are considered one of the most exciting period in the history. Captain Cousteau had unveiled the splendours of undersea life in his famous film "The Silent World", which caused an unprecedented craze for the new diving techniques that he had developed using air cylinders. To satisfy the growing demand for this new sport, in 1959 Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced the first automatic diving watch equipped with an alarm: the Memovox Deep Sea. Three years earlier, in 1956, The Memovox Deep Sea, water-resistant to 10 bar and with its alarm notifying divers of when to begin their re-ascent, was astonishingly popular.
Still riding the wave of success enjoyed by its diving watch range, Jaeger-LeCoultre sought to pay tribute this year to their original bond with the watery depths, and so the new Memovox Tribute to Deep Sea revisits the Memovox Deep Sea—the first automatic diving watch equipped with an alarm. The watches showcase identical characteristics to the original model (with the exception of the case diameter, increased from 39 to 40.5 mm).
Two limited series of 959 and 359 pieces were issued. The first version sports a black dial, while the second has a two-tone anthracite and black dial, originally developed for the US market and bearing the inscription “LeCoultre”, a historic allusion guaranteed to delight aficionados of the history of fine watchmaking.