Precise Chiming: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpetual
Ahead of this week’s SIHH watch salon, insiders at Jaeger-LeCoultre teasingly promised us that this year’s new releases would feature some very interesting complications. What they didn’t tell us was that most of these complications would all be in a single watch. Read on to discover the top features of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpetuél, one of the unquestioned highlight pieces of this year’s show.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel
The timepiece ? which Jaeger-LeCoultre is offering in a 43-mm white gold case, with either a guilloché blue enamel or silver grained dial ? is limited to only 18 pieces and boasts a world’s-first triumvirate of horological chefs d’oeuvre: it is the first multi-axis tourbillon watch with a constant-force mechanism, a Westminster chime, and perpetual calendar. Jaeger-LeCoultre began making its multi-axis Gyrotourbillon watches in 2004, and the most recent evolution to emerge before this one was 2016’s Reverso Tribute Gyrotourbillon. That watch’s bi-axial rotating tourbillon cage was thinner than those of previous models, and this one is smaller still, contributing to the new watch’s overall wrist-friendly dimensions. This type of tourbillon regulator obviously needs a lot of energy to maintain the movement’s chronometric performance, and this is supplied by the new constant-force mechanism (also...
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