Jaeger-LeCoultre – Swiss Watch Makers

The Hottest Watch Movements

Nicolas Scatena — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:30:22 +0000

While the demand of high-end watches is becoming higher and higher, there are many aspects that make a timepiece more expensive. Those aspects include the materials used on the watch, the design, the brand, and most importantly the movement. The movement is a marvel that some people do not care about because it is not seen rather hidden inside the case. Nowadays, many watchmakers have started to introduce more visible casebooks made from glass or crystal. With a glass caseback, the movement is visible to eye.

Many of these movements used in watches could have been around for almost a decade. Others create new innovative watch movements which takes lots of perseverance and dedication. Below, I have a list of the top three watch movements that are very fascinating.

Hublot Caliber HUB 1201

Hublot is known for its very intuitive designs and their technicality. Most importantly, Hublot has been able to keep their success due to fact that they design amazing watches while combining it with a beautiful movement. An example is the caliber HUB 1201, that powers the Big Bang Meca-10. Featuring a ten-day power reserve, this movement was skeletonized , having parts of the movement shown both in the caseback and the dial. This gives an insight from the front and back of the majesty of this movement.

Greubel Forsey 24 Secondes Vision

In the front of this Greubel Forsey is the 24 Secondes Vision, which is one of the most introvert. It almost looks like a regular watch apart from the opening in the dial which shows the 25 degrees inclined tourbillon. When you look at the caseback, it is totally different and a complete majesty. There the tourbillion takes the main stage underneath its crystal dome. It performs its mesmerizing dance every 25 seconds. Crowned by the power reserve indicator, this timepiece can be examined with a loupe and not one flaw will be found.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Caliber 849

Many watch movements have a long lasting history just like this caliber 849 by Jaeger-LeCoultre. It was created by both Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin as a manual wind, ultra-thin movement and first offered for sale in the early 1950’s. The movement being only 1.85 millimeters thick, Jaeger-LeCoultre amazed the world by not only skeletonizing the whole movement but also engraving it. They even went as far as opening up the mainspring barrel, decorating it with the brand’s logo. Crafts like this movement really define what Jaeger-LeCoultre stands for.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface

Nicolas Scatena — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:13:59 +0000

When thinking of Jaeger-LeCoultre, the first thing that comes to mind is thin, elegant, and fancy watches with its iconic reversible case. Today they bring back a slim and elegant tourbillion model, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface. This new timepiece is a celebratory watch to celebrate its 185 year anniversary. This watch has an entirely new design, concept, and movement. This Reverso is equipped with a new manually-wound calibre and is exclusive to very limited pieces.

Many of the complex Reverso watches Jaeger-LeCoultre has released have been rather bulky and thick. On the other hand, this new timepiece is all about elegance and slimness. The 950 platinum case measures at 45.5mm x 27.4mm with Art Deco styles and grooves.

As JLC has always produced fancied double-dialed watches, it is to no surprise that this Reverso tourbillion has two faces. The first dial shows a classic sun-ray brushed blue dial with Dauphine hands and applied indices. The second dial is more technical, with a view of the tourbillion bridge. It displays the movement with on top a silvered grained dial for the independent second time-zone and the night-and-day indicator. The seconds are engraved on the tourbillon cage and pointed by an arrow on the tourbillon bridge as the tourbillion moves counter-clockwise.

To sum up this beautiful tourbillion, the main dial displays hours and minutes and the seconds on the tourbillion. A second time-zone and an indication of the day-and-night on its other dial. This JLC Reverso tourbillion is worn on a well matches blue alligator strap. It will be produced in 50 pieces only and priced at USD 123,000.

Batman/Bruce Wayne’s Time Piece

Nicolas Scatena — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 15:05:05 +0000

What Watch Would Batman/Bruce Wayne Wear?!

Fiction Billionaire Bruce Wayne is actually one of the most famous billionaires in reality. But what time piece would this billionaire playboy/dark knight wear?

The answer is a Jaeger Le-Coultre

More Specifically the Jaeger Le-Coultre Reverso Grande Taille

Yup this billionaire crime fighter wears this classy timepiece.

You can see Bruce Wayne wear this timepiece in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins

But lets go a bit further in time and you can see the Batman wearing this timepiece in Batman Forever by

Here’s the link to the scene. Batman Wears Jaeger Le-Coultre Reverso Grande Taille

The Jaeger Le-Coultre Reverso Grande Taille is very affordable compared to many other timepieces I’ve written about it is actually under the 10k range in most occasions. It has a Jaeger Le-Coultre caliber 822that has 134 parts 21 jewels with a power reserve of 45 hours.

This timepiece has a 3 bar about 90 meters of water proof

Measuring 42.2 mm long and 26 mm wide

width is 9.3 mm.

So for any Batman fan this is the watch to get!

JLC Counters Gravity Affects, SIHH Jaeger-LeCoultre

Nicolas Scatena — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:59:58 +0000

SIHH is one of my favorite watch events. My last few post have been about watches released at the SIHH This next post will be about.. yes.. another.. watch released at the SIHH. Don’t worry guys I’ll review watches that come in to us later. But come on SIHH releases some of the most magnificent watches one can lay their eyes on.

But today I’ll be covering 2 Jaeger-LeCoultre. We’ll start with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon

The Spherotourbillon is part of the Duometre line, a line in which all watches use the Dual Wing concept this concept to put simply uses two power sources one for your time keeping and the other for your regulation and complication needs. This watch will be sold in very limited quantities, 75 in platinum and an unknown amount of rose gold but it’ll be limited as well as stated by Jaeger-LeCoultre CEO.

Ok so lets explain why there is a Dual Wing concept.

In a watch when you use its features a certain amount of power is used to support them, this can affect your normal features.

Let me show another world example imagine you’re on your computer it has say 8 GB and you have your platform and start up programs that use up say 3 GB (That’s a lot for just a platform and startup programs I know) then you open a video editing program that uses 4.5 GB you’ll notice that your operation on your basic platform might slow down, this is essentially the same for watches.

To resolve this they gave the complication and regulation its own power source so it won’t affect the normal time keeping of the timepiece.

Seeing the image above of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon. You can see there are two mainspring sections one labeled Hours/Minutes the other labeled Regulator. Separating the power source assures high accuracy . But just to take it a step further in accuracy they used a dual-axis, dual cage tourbillon on a 20° incline. The fact that it uses two axis means the tourbillon can counteract gravity in a large magnitude of positions. To make this watch even more exact they’ve added a flyback seconds button at 2 o’clock which resets your seconds without stopping the watch.

The Watch has a 382 movement which consist of 460 parts with a 50 hour power reserve.

Jaeger-LeCoultre says the following about their timepiece

“An authentic revolution in the field of Grande Complication models, the Duomètre Sphérotourbillon, stemming from almost 180 years of history and invention unique to Jaeger-LeCoultre, is equipped withan unprecedented multi-axis tourbillon. In addition to the axis of its carriage, the Sphérotourbillon has a second axis inclined at 20° and thereby freeing it from the effects of gravity in all positions. The revolutionary `Dual-Wing` concept featured in Calibre 382 once again paves the way for an original function and makes this exceptional model the first tourbillon watch that is precisely adjustable thanks to the small seconds flyback system.”

The watch is beautiful and unique.
On the dial you will find two power reserve indicators.
A Date feature around the hour and minute indicator
A second indicator as well as a dual time feature.
Of course your able to see the beautiful tourbillon on the face of the watch.
Look below to see the The Rose Gold Model and White Gold Model as well as a special model that seems to have a night sky dial which I loved.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Takes A Unique Travel

Nicolas Scatena — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:57:59 +0000

So I promised 2 Jaeger-LeCoultre watches today and I’m delivering the second one to you now.

This next watch is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duometre Unique Travel.

Lets start of with what Jaeger-LeCoultre had to say about their time piece.

The first watch to combine user-friendly access to the world’s time zones with flexible setting of the time in the destination zone to the nearest minute. This timepiece capitalises on the “Dual Wing” concept, thus avoiding any loss of precision. It displays the reference time together with the time in a second time zone, indicated digitally thanks to a jumping hour disc with the minutes indicated by a hand. A globe at 6 o’clock shows the time zones of the planet with a subtle day/night indicator. Its sapphire crystal case-back reveals the exceptional decoration on the movement.

That’s right this is another Dual-Wing concept watch if you haven’t read my previous blog where I explain it here’s the link Dual Wing Concept

The watch carries a 383 movement with 498 parts to it.

28800 vibrations an hour a power reserve of 50 hours

With 54 jewels decorating it.

Of course this watch provides Hour-minutes, Seconds, Second time-zone, Jumping Hour, Map of the world, Day/Night indicator and if that wasn’t enough it has World time.

The Watch is a nice 42 mm by 13.7 mm
It comes in both White Gold and Rose Gold with a Alligator Leather strap
The Dial is Silver-Grained
The numerals are Polished Black Nickel and the hands are Feuille.

The World Map was beautifully done and in such an appealing fashion.

In the back of the watch you can see the movement and the world time feature as well which is written in a very visible manner.

In the front you can see your current time on the right hand side and then your second “Dual Time” time on your left side with a digital display in vibrant red showing you your jumping hour.

The World Map it is also a Day/Night indicator.