Category: Jaeger-LeCoultre

  • Ralph Lauren Automotive Skeleton Review

    Ralph Lauren Automotive Skeleton Review

      Dial Prominently located at 12 o’clock is a matte black galvanized subdial, with an azurage patten with a luminescent RL logo, stamped on top. At six o’clock is a decentralized seconds subdial with white Arabic numerals and an azurage pattern. Hours and minutes are indicated by matte black oxidized sword-shaped hands, which are coated…

  • Robert Downey Jr. showed off his watch collection to GQ Style

    Robert Downey Jr. showed off his watch collection to GQ Style

    He owns a luxury watch brand Patek Philippe Nautilus 5712, a vintage Baume & Mercier his father gave him, a few Rolexes including a Rolex GMT customized by Bamford Watch Department, a Bell & Ross, and the Jaeger-LeCoultre AMVOX3 Tourbillon GMT that he wore in Ironman 2. GQ Style, a newly launched lifestyle publication that…

  • Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving Watch

    Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving  Watch

    Developed under a special trademark agreement with the United States Navy, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving Automatic Navy SEALs is a rough-and-tumble timepiece designed to be worthy of the elite combat unit for which it is named. The watch is engineered to withstand extremely harsh conditions and features on its dial a new form of…

  • Previewing Jaeger-LeCoultre’s New Geophysic Collection

    Previewing Jaeger-LeCoultre’s New Geophysic Collection

    In 2014, Jaeger-LeCoultre released the limited-edition Geophysic 1958, a tribute to a famous and collectible chronometer that the brand produced in the “International Geophysical Year” of scientific exploration (Click here for more detail on that watch). Now the Jaeger-LeCoultre Geophysic becomes an actual contemporary collection within the brand, with the release of two new, non-limited…

  • Watch Review: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Gyrotourbillon

    Watch Review: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Gyrotourbillon

    The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso is easily one of the most iconic and recognizable watches ever made. The rectangular-shaped, double-faced watch is celebrating its 85th birthday this year, and we were teased with some novelties late last year, but they saved the big reveal for SIHH 2016. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Gyrotourbillon watch is a limited edition…

  • Reviewing Jaeger-LeCoultre Geophysic

    Reviewing Jaeger-LeCoultre Geophysic

    There is a commonly used phrase within the watch community with regards to the watches produced by Jaeger-LeCoultre: “watchmaker’s watches,” the implication being that the market segment JLC fulfills is exclusively a niche for people who know exactly what they want, and know why “what they want” matters. Now, I would not fully argue for…

  • Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Duo Watch

    Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Duo Watch

    Reverso Tribute Duo The Reverso Tribute Duo (above) comes in a stainless steel case measuring 42.8 mm x 25.5 mm x 9.15 mm. Both the front and rear dials have Dauphine-type hands. The front dial is slightly grained, in white, with blue hour markers, hands, and a blue-printed subdial. The back is silver-toned for the…

  • Mechanical Alarms With Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox

    Mechanical Alarms With Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox

    Among its many horological accomplishments, Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced the first watch with an automatic mechanical movement with alarm, the first Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox, in 1956. That groundbreaking movement, Caliber 815, was superseded by its modern version, automatic Caliber 956, in 2008. That movement — upgraded for the 21st century in terms of accuracy, reliability and robustness…

  • Top 5 Most Popular Watches

    Top 5 Most Popular Watches

    Did you know that WatchTime has a Pinterest page with nearly 150 boards and close to 4,000 photos of watches, celebrity watch fans and other images? We’ve got boards devoted to categories such as divers’ watches and tourbillons as well as dozens of individual brands from Rolex to Breguet to Greubel Forsey. Below, we count…

  • Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso, men’s stuff part 19.

    Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso, men’s stuff part 19.

    When it comes to quiet elegance for daily existence, my Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso Grand Taille (pictured left) takes the grand prize over the rest of the watches I own.  It had been a Christmas gift from my spouse in 2013 and I have grown very keen on it in the last year. I’d lusted within…

  • The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Date

    The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Date

    Obtaining a simple three-hander right is definitely an elusive accomplishment. Whether it’s a dive watch or formal put on, the small particulars can do or die everything, which is within the latter that Jaeger-LeCoultre has excelled using the new Master Ultra Thin Date. Sleek and balanced proportions are created possible because of the svelte JLC-manufactured…

  • Hands-Up with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire 40.5

    Hands-Up with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire 40.5

    The Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire 40.5, regardless of its lengthy and arduous title (for individual’s people by having an British tongue) is an extremely serious watch.  It’s, what many would call, a bit of haute horlogerie.  This terms will get tossed around a great deal, actually the “HH” in “SIHH” means haute horlogerie and…