Jaeger-LeCoultre

ChristianDK
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I agree with pplater

I think pplater lined it up quite well. I believe the watches you are referring to a the ones in the master compressor line. They are a line of sportswatches, and really nice ones too. JLC didnt do sportswatches 10 years ago.  Being sportswatches they naturally wouldnt have dauphine hands and the cases would be bigger. Some of the cases (like extreme world chronograph) are very big becuse of a special shock protection system integrated.

JLC are still guardians of beautiful classical wrist watches. both in the reverso line and in the master control line.

You are of course right that the cases in the master control line are slightly bigger than 10 years ago but I guess almost all brands agree on this trend, for several reasons. People get bigger for every generation so the watches need to grow as well. And perhaps in the old days there used to be a "trend" to make watches as small and thin AS possible because this used to be considered elegant and a measure of quality. Perhaps some of these watches where even "too small" ´because of this trend.

A little more radical example: when I see my grandads 32mm ultrathin gold omega from the 50ties it was really too small for his wrist - but that was the trend. After quarts I guess we no longer appreciate the accomplishment to make a movement small and compact so perhaps we have a little more "free view" of case size,I actually think many dress watches of today are better proportioned for the average size wrist.

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COD