By Bruce Shawkey
Antoine LeCoultre (1803–1881), left, founded LeCoultre in Le , Sentier, Switzerland in 1833. LeCoultre started the company by converting his family's barn into a workshop to make high-quality timepieces and clocks. His early innovations, such as inventing a machine to cut watch pinions from steel, the Millionomètre (first device to measure a unit of length of a thousandth of a millimeter or a millionth of a meter) and a keyless watch winding system.
From a 1960 catalog
A 1963 ad:
From a mid-1960s catalog:
Price list for above watches
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