Jaeger-LeCoultre

It will take me some time to prepare a post on such a beauty, but I just couldn't resist to the pleasure of sharing these 2 pictures with you, for the moment.

I know one of us who will become crazy...

Don't expect this post before the first days of September, as there are a lot of things to say, and to dig...

Best,

Nicolas

Gold? Not white gold, have you turned a new page in your life and added a (very impressive and gorgeous) gold watch to your collection?

--Sancerre

I already own the platinum version, and I don't see the interest to " double " it with the RG version.

No, I'm just preparing a post about this watch, and especially the RG, as my previous pictures were all except good.

Best,

Nicolas

thanks for sharing Nicolas - this really seems to be one special watch!

cheers
Rupert

But it takes time...

Best, and thanks!

Nicolas

Can't wait to see the full article. Where in the world do you find all these amazing watches?

Best,

Greg

The, you justb have to take your camera and photography the watches.

Simple, isn't it?

How I understand you on this one.

Even if I'm really not a big fan of colored gold watches, some have something special, like this one.

Strenght and Beauty.

Best, my friend.

Nicolas.

Pics don t load that much but enough to UNDERSTAAAAAND::::you want to know something incredible?Yesterday,yes yes yesterday I finally touched one!I finally got to see it!It was in the most romantic city in the world,Venice,a friend of a very good friend had all the 175 anniversary collection!!!!!For sale and of course my heart was beating and beating..........This beauty was haunting me for months and months as you know,but now it is nightmare,,,,,,You are killing me Nico !The finish on the caliber is slightly darker than yours and those little golr details like the moonphase and disks screws pop up so much,it is incredible.
I'll let you take it away from here I won t give more impression.I will add once you will start the post.......what should I do?????
Mo

Well, my friend, I don't know what to say.

I was seduced, and I ended with the platinum version.

I can tell you that I appreciate it more and more, and that I don't regret one second to have jumped on it.

But me is me, and you is you, and at the end, it will depend on how much you like this watch.

At the poit to make some efforts and sacrifices?

I did, but you?

Keep us updated, my friend.

Shall I have to take mine with me?

Very Best from Sunny Paris.

Nicolas

there are no more doubt as once more we share same opinion on watches....for me this is more than love,it is JLC milestone,it is what a JLC should be .my mind is clear...it has always been even though I tried to like something else better, this is it.

Trouble is it is a heavywheight and I am spoken for......another beauty....

we'll see........

Mo

Wow, Mo...Please tell us more!

This one is hard to beat, though.

Best,

Nicolas

I have a problem now!

I have to keep it a little secret for now......Its like chess playing.

A different beauty,but very charming with a little thing in common with the PC skeleton....

can t say no  more.

Mo

Another skeleton  from a brand which is close to JLC?

Best,

Nicolas

you guessed that one already...and yes that is coming....but but......Lets say that I have been bad lately...oooouuuuchhhhhh!

Now you understand why i suffer when I see The 8 days perp.......

Mo

Looking forward to read your!

 

Best

 

Blomman

And decided to make a review...

It will take more time, of course, but the watch deserves some efforts.

Best and thanks, my friend.

Nicolas

... can't wait to see your full post soon.

Nico, thanks for the heads-up.

stefan

Seeing it in the flesh is a great experience.

Stay tuned.

Best,

Nicolas

I don't have words.

Regards,
Adam

No message body

can't work out whether I like the dial more than the case-back - both beautiful

 

 

No message body

and, to my knowledge, one of the (if not THE) only skeletonized watches where the bridges were "designed" around a motif - in this case the "geo" radiating from the balance. I think it is one of the most beautiful skeletons ever devised by any manufacture, even if I have one gripe against it (that the calendar is the Kurt Klaus, rather than in-house).

Waiting patiently...

-Dean

Although I have a lot of admiration for the Reverso Platinum Nr 2, skeleton, a very light one, admirably playing the card of Transparency.

As for the movement, even if it is " Kurt Klaused ", I don't really care when the movement reaches this level, to say all.

Wouldn't I appreciate a Peseux 260 in a K. Voutilainen?

Best, Dean.

Nicolas

Kurt klaus reference.

thank you

Mo

in 1985, Kurt Klaus was the only movement designer left at IWC. He drew the plans for and developed a perpetual calendar module that could sit on top of a base movement. At that time, IWC had no ebauche, so the brand released it on top of a ValJoux 7750 and a JLC 889. JLC was supplying IWC about 30% or 40% of IWC's movements, but JLC's were more "dress" movements (read: not as "robust," but very good, reliable, accurate and thin), so in the '90's, IWC began using predominantly ETA movements.

JLC, reciprocally, used the Kurt Klaus design, although slightly modified (moved the year module and changed it to 2 digits, not 4, then turned it upside-down), in its first Grande Reveil. Later, in the Master Perpetual (which is still one of my favorite perpetuals), the Grande Memovox, the 8-day Perpetual, and the Master Grande Reveil.

While JLC does make all it's own movements, the use of the KKPC (Kurt Klaus Perpetual Calendar) is a "borrow" of a complication module, and the only one that JLC borrows. Not that JLC can't make a perpetual calendar...the Reverso QP, the Gryo I, the Triptyque - which is the same module as the Reverso QP, but flipped) all lay testimony to JLC's ability to make QPs, not to mention, of course, JLC's long history of the pocket watch grand complications of the 19th and early 20th centuries, etc.

What makes the KKPC "BRILLIANT" is that all of the calendar functions are pre-set and advanced by one corrector (usually at 8 o'clock) on the JLC version, while the IWC is all done on the crown. The only perpetual that I would say is "better" is the Ludwig Oelschin "Ludwig Perpetual," which can advance or retard the date. The only thing it lacks is one of my favorite compications, the moonphase.

When I said my only "gripe" with the Master 8-Days SQ's was the use of the KKPC, I wasn't saying that it isn't a great watch - IT IS!!!! I just wish JLC would develop their own QP module to replace the KKPC, so that every watch would be entirely in-house.

Get it?

-Dean

Well summed.

Of course, we could prefer a 100 % in house movement on such a great watch, but when the finisih is at this level...

Best,

Nicolas

wow,that is some background!I think that the KK module sits and fit perfectly in this case,the highly refinement of the skeleton movement is well adapted to the marvellous pre set module on top.

I really appreciate the one corrector in the watch,as you  said ,a function to be able to go back would be even better(if i am not mistaken Ulysse nardin have such a device in its PC too),I always wondered what you do if for example someone plays around and keep on pushing the date to 2019?Will you wait till then to wear it ? or send it back to the manufacture?

Thank you for your clear post once more.

Mo

As one push is one day, you'll have to send it to the Manufacture.

If you go over for let's say one week, just wait till the date is correct.

Best, my friend.

Nicolas

Imagine little son playing being dad with his watches.......

That would be funny.

Mo