Chekhov once said: “To know the sensation of happiness, you need just as much time as to reset your watch”. A mechanically-timed watch, wise and meticulous. A watch that excles in elegance and technology, still in development. An innovative watch. This is the happiness that Jaeger-LeCoultre has been giving us since 1833.
To celebrate its 180th anniversary, the brand is organizing a number of exclusive events, transforming its famous Parisian boutique into a meeting place for watch enthusiasts in doing so. It’s also releasing a new collection of some of its classic timepieces revisited with sensibility, technicality, and justice. Dubbed, “Hommage à Antoine LeCoultre”, it is indeed an homage to the father of the brand, an inventive and self-reliant master of watchmaking savoir-faire. The manufacturer from Switzerland’s Vallée de Joux is also rereleasing its celebrated Master style, in both the Grande Tradition Tourbillon Cylindrique à Quantième Perpétuel and Ultra Thin varieties. The perpetual pendulum of the Atmos is also available, along with the famous Reverso. Created in 1931 by request of polo players, this style answered their call to protect the dial from inevitable trauma.
But the most dreamlike and poetic of these watches is without a doubt the Rendez-Vous Celestial. It is like a consecration of the genius technique and aesthetics that Jaeger-LeCoultre has been exercising for almost two centuries. A loyal homage to craftsmanship. It offers a celestial vault adorned with a diamond diadem, a constellation affixed onto a lapis lazuli plaque, and a shooting star that appears as an allegory for time itself. A true invitation on a galactic voyage, it shows the positions of the stars as well as the zodiac calendar. If you’re looking for an astral rendez-vous that is face-to-face with your destiny, an exceptionally artistic rendez-vous, then you’d better rendez-vous at a Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique near you!
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