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1910-15 LIP FRENCH REGULATEUR CONVERSION

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 January 2011 19:50 Written by GoldSmithWatchWorks Thursday, 13 January 2011 19:48

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1910-15
W.W.I ERA
FRENCH
LIP
Watch Company
REGULATEUR
POCKET WATCH

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PRE-W.W.II
1930'S
WRIST LUG
CONVERSION

RUNNING AND KEEPING
EXCELLENT TIME

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Diameter (with crown):        54.00 mm
Diameter (without crown): 50.00 mm
Watch crystal diameter:       43.00 mm
Thickness:                             13.00 mm
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Emmanuel Lipmann of Alsace, France was the son of a watchmaker in 1807. In 1867, Ernst Lipmman, his grandson, set up a factory in Besançon, France. By 1890 the company had grown and was employing 35 people, half of them home-workers. About 1900, Emmanuel’s sons Camile and Ernest took over the running of the company. The sons brought in facilities for producing their own pocket and wrist watch movements. The brand name of Lip was introduced in 1906. About the 1930’s, the company started to concentrate on producing precision watches, some of these were endorsed by the ‘National Observatory’ in Besançon.

In 1936 a Lipmman chronometer set a new record for accuracy.

In 1945 the company was passed to the next generation and was controlled by Fred Lip, grandson of Ernst. Fred was a watchmaker by trade. The company had now grown to about 650 employees and produced about a thousand watches a day.

SOME EVENTS:

1807 - creates a chronometer watch that is presented to Napoléon Bonaparte
1896 - the "LIP chronometer" is born.

1914 - manufacture the first wristwatches ordered by the French Army for its Artillery officers.

1939 - manufactures flight watches for French aircraft.

1948 - presents Mr. Winston Churchill with a golden T18 LIP oblong model.

1952 - launches “Electronic" model worn by the French President General de Gaulle and U.S. President Mr. D. Eisenhower.

1973 - the first French quartz watch.

1994 - On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Europe presents U.S. President Bill CLINTON with a Commemorative Watch, the only gift Clinton’s official visits that he keeps for himself.

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BLACK & WHITE
REGULATEUR
WITH
BUTLER STYLE
OUTER MINUTE TRACK
AND
DUAL BLACK
WHITE ENAMELED
TRIMMED & NUMBERED
SUB-DIALS
AND
BLACK CIRCLED
WHITE PAINTED
ENAMEL MINUTE NUMERALS

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DIAL SIGNED
REGULATEUR
LIP

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LARGE GOLD MINUTE HAND
TRAVERSING THE OUTER MINUTE MARKERS

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TRAVERSING THE CIRCULAR HOUR REGISTER