Hodinkee reported in 2015 on a Jaeger-LeCoultre watch that was picked up in a charity shop for $5.99. The watch was eventually sold by its ‘finder’ to noted San Francisco-based Rolex dealer and collector Eric Ku for more than $35,000.According to Ku: “The Deep Sea Alarm that was found at the Goodwill Store in Arizona was from a very small batch of watches made by Jaeger-LeCoultre in 1959.
It was the brand's first commercial attempt at a dive watch since Rolex introduced the Submariner several years earlier. It was interesting because unlike other dive watches of that era, it featured a vibrating alarm function.
All in total, there were less than 1,000 examples produced, which makes them very hard to come by these days. The particular.
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