Many of us here are drawn to both the Memovox’s and the black dialled JLC’s.
So what can be better then a black memovox?
Soon JLC will start to deliver a new black dialled memo – the Master Memovox International
And while we wait, I thought I should write a few lines about one of the precursors.
I know there has been a lot written about the Master Memovox before, but I thought that I should give it a try…
The Master Memovox;
Cal 914 manual wounded, 159 parts, SS on strap.
36 mm in diameter, 11 mm high.
This is one of 1164 black dialled on strap (fact borrowed from Dje).
Produced during 1999-2003 (fact borrowed from Nicolas).
This was one of the first “modern” memovox from JLC with the new gong sound instead of the cricket sound.
Even if it’s a typical classic memovox, if you look closely it’s actually not that typical classic memovox.
So what’s different?
Well to start with, the movement; manual wounded memovox – most modern memovoxes are powered by automatic movements.
It’s a dress watch, so no rotating inner bezel.
An arced JLC logo instead the normal straight JLC logo.
The luminous hour dots have a red border as well as the alarm mark.
Typical sharp shape of the hands, but divided in a two tone colour.
The alarm hours are divided in to 4 per hour, vintage ones have 5.
Sound, lower in tone and in strength if you compare it with the divers.
Box – the box is actually more a bag then a box.
And then of course the open case back!
One thing that I realized when I read Dje’s post was that the positioning of the gong versus the hammer doesn’t seem to matter.
I wonder if the position affects the sound?
Photo borrowed from Dje (Dje, I hope you don’t mind!).
Soon my friends, soon JLC will start to deliver the Master Memovox International
Best
Blomman