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Jaeger 20 ATM: The Review.
When you're collecting JLC Vintage Diving watches, you sometimes fall on some strange watches.
The Polaris II is a perfect example of a strange Vintage JLC with an uncommon shaped case.
The Jaeger 20 ATM is another one.
When JLC used to release some big Diving watches ( 37 x 38, 39, 40, 42 and 43 mm ), the 37 mm case of this Jaeger makes it look really small.
Its special dial, and the original hands are another specificity, and I don't even mention the movement, which is here outsourced.
Mysterious, too, because we rarely see it posted here and there.
When I asked the Manufacture to provide me some informations, I was answered that it wasn't made by JLC in Swizerland, but at the Jaeger Levallois - Perret ( near Paris ) factory, at the end of the sixties, early 70ies, for the French Market.
Let's see all these points in the details.
1/ The Case:
A conventional round case, with a sportive allure.
Big unsigned crow, large and angular lugs ( 19 mm distance between the lugs ) which look a bit like those of the Chrono Shark, small but thick, a bit ..bulky.
As you can see, the stainless steel case is entirely polished, at the exception of the center part of the screw in domed case back, which is brushed.
The inside part of the case back is not signed:
Small, with its 37 mm case, still very pleasant to wear:
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