{"product_id":"lecoultre-pebble","title":"LeCoultre Pebble","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eAmongst Cartier collectors, few timepieces command such reverence as the Pebble. It is not just scarce; it is the very definition of rare.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThe story is well known. In 1972, 5 years after the Crash, at Cartier’s New Bond Street boutique, a unique form was offered to the public: a “square inside a circle”. It is believed that fewer than a dozen examples were produced. Most are in yellow gold; except one, long treated as a horological unicorn, in white gold with a black dial.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eHorological narratives often depend on selective memory. Many of Cartier’s most beloved oddities were, in truth, shaped by earlier Jaeger‑LeCoultre experiments; including the asymmetric. In fact,one recent vintage Jaeger asymmetric exceeded its high estimate at auction and sold for over 55,000 EUR, a signal that these prototypes are no longer footnotes. They are, increasingly, the moral of the story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eIt was precisely such a footnote; quiet, ignored, and therefore dangerous, that surfaced in Japan; this 1950s LeCoultre “Pebble”, gold filled, well preserved and with the unsettling quality that rare objects acquire when they have waited too long to be recognised. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThe form was immediately legible to anyone fluent in Cartier lore; was this a precursor to the Pebble before New Bond Street gave it a name? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThe architecture was the same: a circle domesticated by a square. The original sector dial carries patina; yet remains coherent, its age worn like good tailoring. Within it, a Jaeger‑LeCoultre calibre, a variant of which also powered the original Pebble, keeps time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eSometimes the rarest watch is not the one everyone is hunting, but the one that proves the hunt began earlier than anyone wished to admit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jaeger LeCoultre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44592400302103,"sku":"DR-247.X.10.161.CN.BD-LNIB-OPEN","price":3995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0165\/1838\/files\/68538632-0159-428B-9141-770DB8E2B2DA.jpg?v=1771327029","url":"https:\/\/www.highendtime.com\/products\/lecoultre-pebble","provider":"HIGHENDTIME","version":"1.0","type":"link"}