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     John Ireland New member Username: Figcar Post Number: 8 Registered: 06-2004 Rating: N/A |
I'm new to LeCoultre...Jaeger-LeCoultre I guess is the correct name...anyway I've been into the more robust world of Rolex for several years and by pure chance I discovered this other world, of JLC. I can't say it is better...but it is different...and it is good different. My two models are certainly not the epiphony of modern mechancial watches...and yet maybe there actually are for they are from those days gone by when a mechanical watch had to earn it's daily bread on the wrist of a man who trusted it. It wasn't paid for as a hobby or a "next big thing"...it was a real world tool...and the art was they craftsmanship that made the watch survive for fifty or seventy years...because people back then believed that was the way it should be...things should be built to last. So my brother had this old watch sitting in his drawer for thirty years...the winding crown was frozen solid...he wasn't even sure if it was a man's or woman's...it was just old...and maybe it was gold. That became my first LeCoultre...a 1930s DuoPlan. Thing is, it keep great time...seventy years later it keeps great time. My next LeCoultre wasn't their fanciest or their most exotic or anything like that...it was just a nice gold filled watch that did its job...it satisfied the customer and it paid the mortgages of the folks who made it and sold it. And somehnow it zigged and zagged through the years and found it's way...fifty years later...to my wrist. Smaller and lighter than my Rolexes... and certainly nowhere near as water tight or "tough" in the beefy Rolex kind of way...yet this LeCoultre bumper automatic...Powermatic I guess is the correct name...has a lovely line, a grace and style that speaks in its own voice and tells its own story...about the folks in a company name LeCoultre...and then Jaeger-LeCoultre...who set their standards high and never looked back. Every aspect of this watch is working flawlessly...the reserve counter, the bumper autowind, the accuracy of the movement, the beauty of the dial and case...there is an amazing and subtle elegance to this watch...it has class...and it gives me great pleasure to strap it on my wrist and I am happy that it has found its way into my temporary possesion. And I say temporary because there may come a day when I stop ticking but it keeps going. At which point it will not longer be part of my history...I will be part of its.  | ||
| Zaf Moderator Username: Zaf Post Number: 712 Registered: 05-2003 Rating: N/A |
John, I think you have been bitten....it's a lovely brand. BTW I have all the Duoplan & Powermatic production figures which I can email you privately. |