When we last left Le Jour, the newly reincorporated brand had just released their Hammerhead dive watch, a 70s inspired tool watch with a ton of color, an ETA movement, and 200 meters of water resistance. It felt very much in line with watches that were originally produced by the Le Jour brand, and it was well priced at under $1,000. Their follow up to the Hammerhead, simply called the Heritage, has a very different vibe while retaining much of what made the Hammerhead a value proposition. This one, however, seems to pull from a different era and a different aesthetic, and is likely to appeal to a different customer entirely. 

The Heritage features a squared off, cushion case with highly polished sides and a crown placed at the upper right corner of the case. If you?re at all tuned in to the world of high end horology, this will immediately remind you of the Vacheron Constantin Historiques American 1921, which is itself inspired by a Vacheron design dating back to the 20s. In terms of the design language that?s being tapped into, we?re pretty far removed from the world of colorful 70s divers.  What?s interesting to me about the Heritage is that Le Jour has elected not to mimic what is perhaps the most distinctive aspect of that VC release: the rotated dial, designed to be more easily viewed with your left hand on the steering wheel of a car. Instead, we have a dial that?s oriented in the traditional way (in a range of color options) utilizing a typeface for the ...