Lip Electronic - References, Prices and Owners' Reviews

When you love, you don't count. I came across this LIP Electronic at an auction and I was immediately seduced by its lightning-shaped cardinal indexes... This one is also present at the foot of the second hand like all LIP Electronics. I like to remember a time that I did not know when LIP was one of the most innovative watch manufacturers in the conquest of time and which once passed by the replacement of the spring by a battery! This is typically a collector's watch - or a drawer watch for the most pejorative - which gives me a lot of joy when I decide to open it...

For people of my generation Lip was the equivalent of Omega, Tissot, Breitling etc. This Lip Electronic represents an innovation and the pronounced taste of this brand to be precursors in the field of watchmaking. My model has a rather rare dial because the 4 indexes are represented by a lightning bolt. The quality of Lip proves that after more than 60 years this watch still works very well.

When you love LIP and especially its innovations in the field of electronic watches, you can only be charmed by this one. The dial is simply fantastic. Blue sparkling with a thousand shades and especially indexes with a very 70s typography while taking from the so-called "Breguet" indexes popularized by the famous manufacturer. Very often at that time, the indexes were prominent, with a very characteristic depth. We will also note the deterioration of the small tritium studs which are starting to damage the dial. I am not a big fan of the case with its very small lugs, even if they are original. It is not impossible that the case is not the original one while being from Lip. This is typically a purely emotional collector's watch that I wear little or not at all, but which brings me a lot...