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Yes, your watchmaker is correct
The 'day date" Jaeger leCoultre watches from the early 1970's have indeed outsourced, lower quality AS movements.
Commonly found in the 'Club' series of watches and in some of their late Master Mariner (though most master mariner with date only from earlier series had generally a genuine Jaeger LeCoultre 881 movement).
So, your watchmaker is right.
This watch was made when swiss horology as whole was in serious trouble, and even some 'quality' watch houses had to compromise and went for the low-end market segment with cheap mass produced / outsourced movements such as the A. Shild.
Master Mariner with AS Day Date Movement
Can anybody help me to get an answer. Has JLC made wristwatches with movements (DAY DATE) from AS Schild? Concrete I saw a MASTER MARINER DAY DATE (round about 1970) from LeCoultre and my watchmaker told me that there is an AS Caliber inside ( I did not r...
Yes, your watchmaker is correct
The 'day date" Jaeger leCoultre watches from the early 1970's have indeed outsourced, lower quality AS movements. Commonly found in the 'Club' series of watches and in some of their late Master Mariner (though most master mariner with date only from earli...
one exception..
There is at least one exception regarding 70's day/date movements: The Caliber 906 found in Chronometre watches is an inhouse movement and came either date only or day/date.
