Jaeger-LeCoultre

Dear Purists

Would anyone be able to tell me in the Master Calendar, it does not work like the Patek annual calendar?  you still have to adjust the day every month.  The annual calenday was invented by Patek and can only be found in their watches.

Thanks.

So you will have to set the date at the end of each month, while on the Annual Calendar, you'll have to set it once a year, at the end of February.

Hope this will be of some help.

Best,

Nicolas

Thanks a lot.

So I see a lot of brands have perpetual calendar but is annual calendar only in Patek watches?  I heard that perpetual calendar is very troublesome to set everything while annual calendar is much easier and is much more suitable for everyday wear, any comments on this?  I do not own any complicated watches but am interested to find out more if it is worth the extra money.  It seems like that these watches for sure will have a larger chance of breaking down than simple watches and repairs and maintenance should be costly.  Hence, the lesser you wear it (or keep in winder), the lesser maintenance you need and the lesser wear and tear there will be.  Then, why do you need perpetual or annual calendar in the first place?  You need to set it every time you want to wear it anyway.

Regards

Ivan

when a cheap quartz wil do a better job at telling time and so much less troublesome.. but also so much less involving and so much less to love and admire... just me though.

I'll leave the experts to go on about your other points as I still struggle to crystalize my thoughts on horology without coming across as a fool

As for annual calendars, MIH has one, the least complicated annual calendar I think and but as far as Pateks and Annual Calendars are concerned, to be they always equate the same when one or the other is mentioned. Some trivia, I read that Pateks Annual Cal has more parts than its Perpetuals.. go figure... not sure if this is still the case though.

So I couldn't be able to tell you if only PP does it...

Perpetual calendars are not always troublesome to set.

I know at least 3 brands where the PC are easy to set:

Ulysse Nardin: The PC is set by the crown, and can be set backward or forward.

IWC: The PC is set by the crown, too.

JLC: The PC is set by a single pusher : 1 push , one day, all is sychronized.

After, if you want to save money when you service a watch, it is a bit like with watches: Never buy a Ferrari or Aston Martin, go for a Dacia.



Here again, it depends on the brand, as the cost for a service or repair is really different from a brand to another.

If you think about what is worth the extra money,, in terms of complications, then the Chrono is hard to beat.

Much more difficult to realize than a Perpetual Calendar, and less expensive.

Though, I'm not sure you willl have to think about what is worth the money.

It can be a criteria, for sure, but not the very first one, nor the most important, IMO.

Best,

Nicolas

Not a common complication (and I recall reading the Patek annual calender is actually as complex as the perpetual).

However this is at least one other around - the MIH watch.

Details here :-

http://www.ornatus-mundi.ch/artikel_12/artikel_12_1.htm