World Time – Swiss Watch Makers https://swisswatchland.com Professional Watch Repair Wed, 20 Jun 2018 01:30:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://swisswatchland.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-New-Swiss-Watchmakers-Logo-Watch-Repair-32x32.jpg World Time – Swiss Watch Makers https://swisswatchland.com 32 32 Your Century, Your Millenia https://swisswatchland.com/2014/02/09/your-century-your-millenia/ Sun, 09 Feb 2014 15:50:18 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3249 The Urwerk UR-1001 Zeit Device 
  
This is the first pocket watch that I’ve written about.
I find this watch to be spectacular. It looks to me like a modern World War device.
It holds seconds, minutes, and hours like a standard watch; the Ur-1001 Zeit Device displays the day/night, the date, month, years.
There is a power reserve indicator, the power lasts for 39 hours in which it will have to be wound with the three-position winding crown.
On the back it displays the century and millennium! The UR-1001 also has an oil indicator on the back that lets you know when it needs servicing!

Components & Specifications

Now let’s head into the components and specifications. It is 23mm thick and, when holding it in the face up upright position, it is 106mm tall and 62mm wide.
The glass in the case is sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating so nothing gets in the way of that marvelous display. The case itself is AlTiN treated steel with titanium elements.
It is water resistant to 3 ATM. It has a total of 51 jewels.
The UR-1001 includes a hand-made, heat-blackened steel linked chain with a bespoke Urwerk clasp with carbineer closure. Which I believe is replaceable but what is better than the original, right?
]]> Jaeger-LeCoultre Takes A Unique Travel   https://swisswatchland.com/2014/01/30/jaeger-lecoultre-takes-a-unique-travel/ Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:57:59 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3270
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.
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