Jaeger-LeCoultre

Hello, I've been a regular stalker on this forums, and thank you all for your very invaluable posts! A friend recently purchased this beautiful Perpetual Calendar in Auction, and I am very very curious as to what the middle dial is to show. And whether an...  

The Red Zone, which means the moment you have to avoid setting the date of your perpetual ccalendar in order to avoid ruining the delicate movement ( basically 9 PM / 3 AM ). Best, Nicolas

Thanks a lot! I hope nothing detrimental has happened to the watch at this time. Do you know why the centre dial moves though? Seems to not be a normal thing.. This message has been edited by twitceh on 2012-05-28 23:05:23

There should be a corrector on the side of the case at 8 o'clock. set the time, then take a tooth pick (this way you won't risk scratching the case) and depress until you come to 2012. I had one that was 2 years back, and it took me only about 2 minutes t... 

Thanks for the reply, strangely enough there wasn't a quick set as is accustomed to normal Perpetuals... We did look, and the auctioneer did have a look too. I found a picture of a similar model of the 8 o clock side: Anyways it's a really beautiful watch...  

everything is set via the crown - the way the Kurt Klaus module was originally developed for IWC (and which is the only module AFAIK that JLC borrows). -Dean