Jaeger-LeCoultre

Have you ever wondered why we can be appealed by such simple watches while brands and independent watchmakers launch so many complicated designs if not watches?

I won't pretend to have true answers but I have an opinion.

Vintage time

Wrap a pure sublime design on a powerful engine, on a fantastic calibre and you get a winning combination. A Patek Philippe 5098 or a A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange would be my easiest picks for this incarnation of simplicity. Did I write simplicity, or Simplicity? Well you see what I mean……. A modern Geophysique would be such too!

Quite probably my absolute favourite car

I chose these pictures from Steve McQueen's friend William Claxton as they nicely illustrate a perfect combination of elegance, even if sometimes of casual elegance, and coolness, a touch of simple perfection.

I must confess that I'm more and more tired by the too many (IMVHO) over-designed watches overly full of their emptiness!

Have an eye inside

Even if I can appreciate like you and like you can imagine some less simple watches (I will show a new one soon ) I realize that the watches I appreciate on the long term are the one with really interesting calibres, be they on the outside show stoppers or not!

These two watches share a typical bridge design from the Vallee de Joux! The Master Ultra Thin still show such a design, like the Reverso GT calibre 822!

Simple elegant efficiency

I repeat myself but I hope to see someday a new JLC watch with a comparable calibre and a central second hand.

Comments

I've understood that the supposed best reason not to re-issue the Geophysique is the defined small size of the original watch. I totally disagree in fact with this supposition. Please look at the picture below and tell me if the watch looks too small for my wrist? A Geophysique is slightly larger than this one.

Small? No! Perfect.

On the contrary I would not ask for a re-edition of a pocket watch as I don't believe  to any market for such a watch today, but a new larger "Geophysique" calibre could also be used in a dressier (and larger than the Geophysique) watch that could take some aesthetical hints from this pocket watch.

3, 9, 12 again

For once the bridge finish should be as nice as this one, sharp and ambitious, showing a kind of "natural" design harmoniously exhibiting the wheels!

We miss this kind of design

Who could seriously resist to such angles below? Who wouldn't want to hide such a beauty below an understated dial?

The natural design of calibres

This is basically what the Geophysique was, a dream engine in an easy watch ! The 250 GT Lusso would be my car pendant!

I hope to get your support.

Cheers

Dje