Two Watch  Cufflinks

Inventory number: PW1809003& PW1809004

Lucien Piccard Watch  Cufflinks

Produced circa 1950, 13mm, manual-winding caliber, 17 jewels, 14k yellow gold sphere case extending to gold bars with sugarloaf cabochon lapis lazuli terminals. 

Functions: hours and minutes.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Watch  Cufflinks 

Produced in 1951 exclusively for the U.S. market, 15mm, 14K yellow gold case, manual-winding caliber Cal. 490, 17 jewels. 

Functions: hours and minutes.

Historical Background

1. Lucien Piccard was founded in Switzerland in 1923. 

2. Jaeger-LeCoultre is a Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer founded by Antoine LeCoultre in 1833. Since 2000, the company has been a fully owned subsidiary of the Swiss luxury group Richemont. Jaeger-LeCoultre has hundreds of inventions and over a thousand calibers to its name. 

3. The pair of Jaeger-LeCoultre cufflinks watches were collected by Jack Benny, an American comedian, vaudevillian, radio, television, and film actor, and violinist, recognized as a leading 20th-century American entertainer. He and another famous voice actor Mel Blanc were very close friends. Mel even got Jack interested in collecting watches, including this pair of cufflinks, and Jack gave this cufflink to Mel's son Noel as his 13th birthday gift.