All about the Jaeger Lecoultre Watches
Antoin Lecoultre, a brilliant Swiss inventor and self taught watchmaker set up his very first workshop in 1833 after he invented a machine to manufacture pinions for watch making. From then on, Jaeger Lecoultre has evolved continuously around the original workshops of the founder. Before the Jaeger Lecoultre watches came into existence, it was Antoine LeCoultre who first measured the micron although he was neither an engineer nor a physicist. He came up with some watch components that were so wonderful that no tool could possibly detect any degree of inaccuracy in them. Next he invented the most precise instrument in the world, the Millionometer which worked as a benchmark for more than fifty years.
Then in 1847, LeCoultre came up with a ground-breaking system that was to eliminate to the need to have keys to set watches and rewind them. His plain and clever solution was a push button that set in motion a lever to switch from one function to a different one. This was the first ever keyless winding mechanism and also the first reliable system that got rid of the need to have keys to set or wind a watch. Jaeger Lecoultre was to follow this in the future for all their Jaeger Lecoultre watches.
Then in 1866 when watchmaking in Switzerland was still restricted to small workshops run at home, Antoine LeCoultre along with his son, Elie thought of bringing the several skills that were used in watch making and set up a steam driven machine to operate their many new tools. Thus LeCoultre and Cie turned out to be the first manufacturer in the Vallée de Joux.
Come 1903, Edmond Jaeger from Paris set a challenge to the Swiss watch makers to produce an ultra thin caliber. This gave birth to the Calibre 145 the thinnest mechanical movement available in the world measuring at not more than 1.38mm and thus forged the friendship between Jaeger and Jacques LeCoultre, Antoine’s grandson. These two men together introduced the Jaeger Lecoultre brand in 1937 and you can choose from a wide variety of Jaeger Lecoultre watches today.
In 1908, the first caliber in the shape of a rectangle was made to make smaller watches to wear on the wrist. By 1920, ladies watches were very much in fashion but then the extra miniaturization forever led to loss of precision and reliability. This was resolved by the Calibre 101 which outdid the Calibre 145 at a weight of just about one gram and made up of as many as 74 parts. And this record set by Jaeger Lecoultre still holds good today.
Ever since Jaeger Lecoultre was founded, there have been several hundreds of Jaeger Lecoultre watches manufactured whether it is ladies watches or mens watches and there are plenty of varieties to choose from.
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