{"id":187680,"date":"2026-08-18T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/?p=187680"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:17:55","slug":"lip-un-recorrido-por-sus-modelos-mas-emblematicos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/en\/revista\/lip-un-recorrido-por-sus-modelos-mas-emblematicos\/","title":{"rendered":"LIP: a journey through its most iconic models"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The brand of LIP watches<\/strong><\/a> was founded in 1867 in the French town of Besan\u00e7on by the watchmaker Emmanuel Lipmann<\/strong>, under the name \u201cComptoir Lipmann\u201d<\/strong>.<\/em> This watchmaker's sons worked to ensure that the manufacture grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century, gaining recognition in the world of watchmaking; it was subsequently renamed “Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Anonyme d’Horlogerie Lipmann Fr\u00e8res”<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1904, a little-known collaboration between the firm and two French physicists who had discovered radium just a few years earlier would give LIP watches the first luminescent dials. These two physicists were none other than Marie and Pierre Curie<\/strong> (the 1903 Nobel Prize winners in Physics).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Its trade name LIP<\/strong>, which they had already used in earlier collections but which was not the official one, was acquired in 1908. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the history section, we tell you more about the details of this manufacture, which has a great many interesting anecdotes that will surprise many of you, but for now let us focus on its calibers and the watches the firm has brought to life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CALIBER T18:<\/strong> At the express request of Fred Lip<\/strong>, in 1933 the watchmaker Andr\u00e9 Donat<\/strong> developed the T18 caliber<\/strong>, so named for its compact dimensions. At barely 18 mm wide, its design was a major technical achievement for the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fame of this caliber has endured to this day. In 1948, a LIP watch fitted with a T18 was presented to Winston Churchill <\/strong>by the French Government, as a token of gratitude for the services rendered by Great Britain to France during the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The T18's importance among watchmaking enthusiasts and collectors led LIP to revive this iconic design within its Churchill line<\/strong>, presented once again in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LIP HIMALAYA:<\/strong> We can guess the reason behind this name, can't we? In 1950, a group of explorers set out on the expedition to Annapurna, the highest peak on Earth, with the aim of reaching its summit. And do you know what accompanied them on that historic journey? That's right: a LIP watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That expedition helped forge the bond between LIP and the world of exploration, and gave its name to one of the brand's most emblematic collections: Himalaya<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, this collection is still honoured with a wide variety of models, which you can discover in our shop World Watch Museum<\/strong>, with pieces in different designs and sizes, from 29, 33 and 35 up to 40 millimetres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LIP \u00c9LECTRIQUE\/ELECTRONIC: <\/strong>Perhaps the world's first electronic watch \u2013a risky claim for any manufacture to make\u2013. Released in 1953. Nor did they clearly settle on its name, gifting one to General De Gaulle and taking the name of \u201cDe Gaulle\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Lip G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Gaulle Classic 35 mm, available in the World Watch Museum shop).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It has also gone by other names, such as \u201cthe presidents' watch\u201d<\/strong>; Bill Clinton <\/strong>was seen wearing one on many occasions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MINILIP 1969: <\/strong>“Ce n’est pas une montre pour minus\u201d or, in other words: Minilip <\/strong>is not a watch for children. <\/em>“It is large (7 mm), wide (31 mm). It is heavy, it has three dials. It is not a watch for children\u201d, stated Fred Lip<\/strong>, seeking to distance itself from its competitors, who at the time mass-produced this type of watch but were looking to explore that new children's audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Minilip<\/strong> is, then, an educational watch, conceived from a highly didactic approach. Divided into 3 distinct parts. Each concentric circle allows you to read, from the narrowest to the widest, the minutes, the morning hours and the afternoon hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LIP MACH 2000:<\/strong> The Mach 2000<\/strong> line was created in 1975 by Roger Tallon<\/strong>, a pioneer of French industrial design. With a futuristic design that was bold and playful for its time, the collection was born in the midst of the quartz crisis, betting on creative and different watches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tallon brought concepts drawn from art and design to the watch, creating unconventional compositions that were hard to imagine on a traditional timepiece. The result was an original, transgressive and instantly recognisable collection that would in time become one of the great icons of LIP design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La marca de relojes LIP fue fundada en 1867 en la localidad francesa de Besan\u00e7on por el relojero Emmanuel Lipmann, bajo el nombre \u201cComptoir Lipmann\u201d. Los hijos de este relojero trabajar\u00edan para que r\u00e1pidamente, a finales del XIX, la manufactura creciera, adquiriendo reconocimiento en el mundo de la relojer\u00eda; pas\u00e1ndose a llamar “Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Anonyme d’Horlogerie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":187696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569],"tags":[1721,1741,1626,1652,1740,1743,1739,1742],"class_list":["post-187680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guias-de-marca","tag-churchill","tag-guia","tag-historia","tag-lip","tag-marca","tag-must","tag-presidentes","tag-tank"],"permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwatchmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}