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Jaeger-LeCoultre: “Making Time More Beautiful”

Jaeger-LeCoultre is not only well-known for its fine skills in watch-making, the luxury watch producer is also known for its commitment to supporting a range of global causes associated with sustainable development. With this in mind, Jaeger-LeCoultre has entered into a three-year partnership with the UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre and with the International Herald Tribune [...]

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Jaeger-Lecoultre Watches Win Again

Created in 2009, the Master Grande Tradition Tourbillon à Quantième Perpétuel has just been awarded First Prize in the ‘High Complications’ category, as voted for by a panel of horological experts at the Munichtime ’09 Exposition. In so doing, this fine watch continues a tradition of award winning Jaeger-Lecoultre watches. Typical of the Jaeger-Lecoultre tradition, [...]

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Jaeger-LeCoultre's Hybris Mechanica

Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Hybris Mechanica 55 is said to be their greatest masterpiece of timekeeping so far. A masterpiece that comprises three truly exceptional timepieces: the Grande Sonnerie (left), the Triptyque (centre) and the Gyrotourbillon (below). The designation ’55′ refers to the 55 complications that the three watches share. This landmark set of watches then ranks as [...]

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Jaeger-LeCoultre in the Himalayas

Jaeger-LeCoultre, with their origins high in the mountains of Switzerland - Vallée de Joux to be exact, are sponsoring an extreme challenge in Nepal. That is, the ascent of a mountain that has never been climbed before. The team is made up of three experienced mountaineers: Stéphane Schaffter, an outstanding Swiss alpinist and team leader; [...]

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Jaeger-LeCoultre launches an iPhone application

In 1833 Antoine LeCoultre founded his first workshop high in the Vallée du Joux, and now we have one of the finest of Swiss watchmakers in what is Jaeger-LeCoultre Manufacture. Since these humble beginnings in the early nineteenth century, Jaeger-LeCoultre have filed some of the most significant patents in horological history. Over 200 patents have [...]

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