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Marketing trick on thickness vs VC, and certainly not a record
The VC is 4.1mm. Making the JLC Jubile Ultrathin at "4.05mm" looks really like a trick to pretend to be the thinnest.
Let's see what the watch looks like, specially the edge to see if it really is 'knife edge' as intended.
As for the record claimed by the manufacture to have created the thinnest handwound mechanical wristwatch and having established a new breakthrough record, this is simply not true (by far).
However, the watch does look quite good from what we can see in the first sneak pictures regardless of the 'record' status.
Wow...I'm in trouble
JLC did it to me again and just announced my next new watch, the Master Ultra Thin Jubilee. As much as I love my Master Ultra Thin 38, it just became a bit bloated. The Jubilee is simply stunning and the fact that it is in platinum is the icing on the cak...
Thinner than...
At 4.05mm thick it is thinner than the excellent VC and Piaget manual models. Amazing piece.
re: thnner than...
... not sure it is thinner than VC and Piaget. actually this new one uses the same caliber 849 which is 1.85mm in thinness as they used for previous ultra thin models. the only difference compared with the last model is that this one uses solid instead se...
Marketing trick on thickness vs VC, and certainly not a record
The VC is 4.1mm. Making the JLC Jubile Ultrathin at "4.05mm" looks really like a trick to pretend to be the thinnest. Let's see what the watch looks like, specially the edge to see if it really is 'knife edge' as intended. As for the record claimed by the...
Curious. The 849 movement is...
Curious. The 849 movement is listed as 1.85mm thick. What production watch would be thinner? On Jan 22, 2013, at 18:44,
Jean Lassale / Mathys cal 1200 and ist successors
Pierre-Mathys-designed Jean Lassale calibre 1200 was 1.2 mm thick (hence its name ! ) It was later fabricated by Lemania under reference 1210 and used by Piaget (calibre 20P) and then by Vacheron Constantin (calibre 1160) Jaeger LeCoultre calibre 849 is 1...
While it may not be a record,
I do believe it is the thinnest currently in production.
I would also be surprised if the watches using the
Cal. 849 are not the thinnest really practical, everyday watches. The design of the movement and case is of one project, I have never heard that any of the JLC Ultrathins are less usable than more ordinary watches, just much thinner and more elegant.
I have owned a Master Ultra Thin 38 for a couple years now
And have never found it to be unreliable or overly fragile. While I would never consider wearing while I was doing strenuous activity, like sports, for everyday wear I have been very happy with it.
I almost replaced my MUT 38 with an Altiplano last year
While the Altiplano is a fantastic watch I'm glad I didn't. I'd rather have a JLC and platinum is preferable to white gold.
I bet it will be the winner of the JLC Collection, this year. Very nice looking watch.
More to come in the detailled review... Best, Nicolas
For me it is the winner.
While I think the collection this year is quite stron,g and there are a number of pieces that I would like to have in my collection, the MUT Jubilee is the one that I NEED to have. They took what I liked about the MUT 38 and made it just a bit better. A l...