It is very rare I can say that an official picture made a strong impression on me. Here is one, featuring the Master Compressor Memovox, which made me fall in love with that watch. I fell for this first modern evocation of the legendary Polaris, with thes...
It’s a great looking watch and looked fine even on my somewhat thin wrist. I loved the alarm with the bell sound and was very pleased with it at first. Unfortunately, however, after a while I found the compressor crowns really annoying. They were, to me, ...
The watch itself is quite practical. Other than the alarm, the inner bezel can be used as time event reminder. The location of the JLC logo is odd, though better than its siblings the Dualmatic which looks like everything put on the dial in a random fashi...
The crowns never dug into my wrist; the back of the watch didn't bother me - although JLC could have done some smoothing on the design. The original Compressor design release that the then-moderator, Jaw did was fantastic. The one he did for the EWC was e...
My first sampling of a memovox movement was in an IWC GST alarm. It was a great watch, but the cursive International Watch Company printing seemed at odds with the Bauhaus design of the rest of the watch. Then I had the Memovox compressor pictured. The al...
I've been mildly obsessed with the Master Compressor era of JLC every since I bought my MC GMT. They really invested a lot of time, and money into this era and i'm so bummed they went the more traditional route. Anyways I found two interesting articles on...