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Absolutely agree where the indipendents are concerned - my comments were aimed primarily at the LVMH, Richemont, and Swatch Group brands.
That said, given the cost of things like De Bethune, MB & F, Voutilainen, etc., one might argue that the Swiss mid-market segment on the whole has abandoned any degree of daring as far as design is concerned - especially in comparison to the market of a couple of decades ago. There was a time when you could access at least some degree of design novelty for less than $50 grand, but those days are long gone. Perhaps it makes sense that design innovation has joined high horology in the exclusive realm of the connosieur.
Jaeger Lecoultre 2020: The New Master Control Memovox and Memovox Timer have just been unveiled. A brief view on both of them
1950 - 2020... Jaeger Lecoultre is celebrating the 70th birthday of its icon, the Memovox. For that significant birthday, the Manufacture decided to unveil two models, the Master Control Memovox, and the Master Control Memovox Timer. Let's first start wit...
Thanks for sharing
I like the timer. The standard Memovox doesn't feel different enough from the 2010 revision to feel new or warrant a replacement. As for the date, I have no objections other than the use of a contrasting date disc. A blue metallic disc would have been mor...
Totally true. Eve if the current Memovox is more refined, it is still too close to the former one. But it is some great news for those who don't own the former. As for the Timer,
It is really eye catching... Best, Tim. Nicolas
The timer looks like a design copy of the Memovox Boutique Edition from a few years ago. Really JLC? No new ideas?
I used to love JLC but in the last few years their releases really disappointed me.
wow IMHO Memovox Bleu Timer is very very gorgeous. Yet I am sad
It is so so beautiful in such a way that a date really ruins the harmony. Some watch are not as beautiful and in harmony as this, thus addition of date is not very disturbing. honestly for me the date make the Memovox Bleu Timer incongruous. Thank you Nic...
Damn ... I'm in love ... again ;)
The Memovox Timer looks great ! The timer function is such a clever addition. If I'm not mistaken, it's "just" a simple matter of having the proper indications on the inner dial and on the hours' hand; Nothing specific to this on the caliber... The date w...
It is just a new way of displaying the alarm time, or the remaining time until the alarm
As you will see in the JLC video here: www.youtube.com k The timer area (with numbers) is tight to the inner ring with the triangle. The red JL logo is on the hour hand and therefore moves with the hour hand to indicate the remaining time to the a...
Great piece !
Thanks a lot Nicolas for the info. I really like the watch, first time with a JLC novelty since years… Just two questions, for which you may have the answer(s) : - you posted two different versions of the memovox timer : one with the JLC brand written on ...
the alarm and the timer are the same function
you can't set the timer independently from the alarm: when you use the crown to rotate the inner dial, the triangle moves and the timer numbers move too since both are on this inner dial. Then it is a matter on how you set the alarm: either at a fixed tim...
JLC logo at 12
What's your opinion about the JLC logo at 12 o'clock? Even on JLC website, some pictures show the logo and others don't... I'm wondering if we can still impact the final version regarding this logo... And what about the "automatique" wording at 6 ? Lastly...
Both look good!
Just a bit of a shame on case size, but given that the rest of the new Master Control line is 40mm it's no great surprise. Definitely a case of needing to see them in the flesh! Intrigued by the second one - is the inner setting a count down - the other n...
Not a new function/complication, just a different way to display
It looks like all the functionality is identical to the regular Memovox. Using the stock photo as an example, 10:10 is slightly less than 8 hours away from a 6:00 alarm, so the red JL indicator attached to the hour hand is positioned as such. I think the ...
I was trilled to my iPhone waiting for this
so, well In the past, I had a Memovox Master Control, so it was 10 years ago but I don't see much difference from the current model. Regarding the Timer version. The case is good, I would have preferred smaller and thiner but that's ok. I don't like the d...
Quick date set
Does anybody know if these models have quick date set? Or do we still have to hack it like my MCC? 😇
Small point, but the kerning of the text on the dial...
...isn't very good. I know, I know...picky. But it's a precision instrument. Don't they have access to graphic designers at these companies?
The spacing between individual characters (letters)...
...for instance, in 'MEMOVOX' (on the non-limited version) there are large spaces between the O—V—O. This happens when someone types out the word and uses the default from whatever application they are using (MS Word, for instance). If this spacing occurs...
Then why is the spacing bad between the V and the second O...
and the M A and T in Automatique? JLC never uses Memovox are two words. I know I am being picky but it's what I got/get paid to do.
Hopefully they read this forum and will make the adjustment...
...also please forgive the typo above. I am a good designer but a terrible typist : )
Like -50 kerning you reckon?
Ha ha, I too get paid to do this and that kerning is certainly tight!
Some is tight, some isn't...
...that's the point, it's inconsistent. 99.9% don't care either way so I'm beating a dead horse.
While it's a shame about the date window, the new Timer looks really, really tempting!
Not sure I could justify it alongside my classic Master Memovox, but boy, is it cool-looking! ...
On the close-up shots on another site...
...you can see that a lot of work went into that date window...lots of detail. Whether you like it or not, they didn't skimp on that part : )
Presuming it's done similarly to the previos generation Memovox that I own, the details and finishing on the date window are indeed nice. 👍
I really wish they'd done a color-matched date wheel for the blue dial, though. I think the date window works much better on my silver-dialed reference, my only complaint being that it's not aligned with the hour indices. (Too close to the center of the d...
More pictures
I was in the JLC boutique this evening and they forwarded me some pics of the timer. Glad to share Photos all credit JLC ...
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My apologies. Only when I read your post did I realize I might have “stealing your scoop” so to speak which is absolutely unintentional. Just was ebthousiastic about the watch and your post and when I received those pictures all I wanted was to contribute...
The Timer, one of the first JLC in some time that made me look harder, and read on.
I do like it, visually. And the alarm and countdown combination is really very practical. Neither are something most of us think much about when we think about mechanical watches.
Granted, they are nice, I will give JLC that much. But don't you think its time for them to introduce
something new and exciting instead of reissues, or tributes to former watches. Surely someone at JLC can come up with a fresh, new idea and put it into motion.
Now this limited one is appealing
Can’t wait to see real life photos, although I regret without a local boutique (AD’s yes) I won’t be able to see one in the metal.
Window dressings rather than substantial improvements.
Like with the master line update, slightly improved case and modernized dials, but lacking innovation and boldness, let alone a modernized crown. If JLC thinks that following the Rolex model of minimal design iteration is a plus (mais sans power reserve u...
I recall a period when JLC was far more adventurous in its offerings - Amvox, Reverso Squadra, Master Compressor, Reverso Gran' Sport...
...and many more inventive variations on the regular Reverso. I've always wondered whether they just got slaughtered in sales with those lines, or whether some higher-up at Richmont stepped in and decreed "Thou shalt not innovate!" JLC is one of my favori...
Very true - but interestingly, each of those lines was at a price point at whole number multiples (or even an order of magnitdue) above the Amvox,
Squadra, Master Compressor, Gran' Sport, or other Reversos. It would appear that the policy became "if we're going to due something innovative, it's going to be in precious metal (or exotic materials) and cost > $30,000 US." Interesting way to differentia...
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