Lip Eclipso

Lip Eclipso​ 
Nickel & Lizard
1930's
Manual wind
15 Jewels 
Movement cal. Lip 26 3
Swiss case
ca. 65/36 x 36 x 12 mm

When in 1867 Emmanuel Isaac Lipmann, son of a watchmaker supplies retailer, begun his watch atelier in the town of Besançon, the ‘Comptoir Lipmann’, he certainly could not have imagined that he would be the pillar of a family saga that would continue and expand over three generations into the largest watchmaking company that France has ever known.
Lip was a very successful thriving company with rapid growth and a huge production line.

Lip designed and manufactured the Eclipso in the early 1930’s, though the case is signed ’Boite Fabriquée en Suisse’. It was considered a competitor to the Movado Ermeto both could be purchased in a range of metals and with a variety of decorative designs and covers. But the Eclipso is undoubtedly the most uncommon of the two.

The Eclipso has a genius construction, simply two shells that are hinged together and with a slight shifting of the small button the shells separate creating a watch you can use as a miniature table clock, close it and it is a ever so handy pocket/travel or purse watch. It measures 36 x 36 mm when closed and is 12 mm thick, wide open the bottom measures 65 mm in total.

Don’t let it slip through your fingers gems like this only come around once in a life time…