Jaeger-LeCoultre Extreme Watches Book Publish

Jaeger-LeCoultre has produced a book dedicated to extreme watches, both the timepieces themselves and the adventurers who've worn them.

Since 1833, Antoine LeCoultre and his watchmakers began to personally testing their creations by climbing the highest peaks in the Alps, the brand has been associated with some of the world's most demanding environments.

When the Nautilus submarine was commissioned to dive under the ice pack,which is become the first to reach the North Pole in submerged mode, Jaeger-LeCoultre developed the Geophysic chronometer equipped with a magnetic resistant case.

Other expeditions linked with the marque include Emannuel Coindre's solo row across the North Pacific for which he wore a Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Extreme World Chronograph, as well as last year's voyage of three mountaineers who climbed a virgin peak in the Himalayas for which they took the Master Compressor Extreme LAB2 Tribute to Geophysic.

The CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre, Jérôme Lambert said: "This book is dedicated to all adventurers, explorers and other conquerors of the impossible. It tells the story of challenges, efforts and triumphs. It also tells of a key element in many such feats: time.”

The book will be given to buyers of Jaeger-LeCoultre technical watches.

World watch brand Jaeger-LeCoultre 101 movement series

In 2009 the 66th Venice Film Festival, with the collaboration of many well-known brands, many superstars were selected wearing Jaeger-LeCoultre 101 high-level jewelry watches, such as the U.S. star Eva Mendes in the 66th Venice Film Festival opening ceremony wearing the Jaeger-LeCoultre 101 Joaillerie Feuille Senior jewelry watch, while the Chinese actress Huang Lu as the only one nominated last year in the 66th Venice Film Festival's main Chinese movie star competition unit.In its film premiere ceremony, she was wearing the high Jaeger-LeCoultre Joaillerie 101 Platinum full diamond jewelry watches. Italian actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta was wearing Jaeger-LeCoultre 101 manchette watch to attend the closing ceremony of the 66 Venice Film Festival...


Grande Reverso 101 art Déco F

In order to pass the Venice Film Festival to commemorate the world's most smallest movement, Jaeger-LeCoultre have launched special six Gorgeous eye-catching, unique styles' watches together to celebrate for 101 movement, elegant floating, spiritual and think walk, the ultimate compact machine in the world to create an infinite space to express.

101 movement was born in 1929, and it was hailed as the world's smallest mechanical movement. Mellow flavor and bold innovative new ideas, this movement embodies the brainstorms of Jaeger-LeCoultre craftsmen. Its jewelry watch is the most graceful elegant ladies decorated wrist watch. Queen of England in 1953 in his coronation ceremony have wearing jewelry watch. After IV transmission, this micro-mechanical masterpiece is still standing proudly at the forefront of the times. However, this Movement of the output section is only 50 pieces. The craftsmen can able to master such precise art of watch assembly is rare. In the 0.2CM3 spacem,it required to accommodate the tiny 98 components, the thickness is only 3.4 millimeters, Balance wheel vibration frequency of 21600 times per hour, and weighing less than 1 gram ... This is an adventure for itself. Each one movement is unique, because each component only for this one movement tailored. Although the micro-movement is small, showing stunning performance space: liked and freely, realized diamonds bright and dazzling, shape rich in volatile and build multi-purpose. The commemoration watch that exhibited at the Venice Film Festival last year shall be the best symbolized watch.

Whether modern tolerance, or classic style, fine jewelry watch series 2009, including one Men's watch models, thousands of styles to decorate 101 movement. Reverso case accompanied by a slender profile, roundshaped, rectangular or square dial, visible or invisible mechanical structure, the noble and rare materials ... each Limited edition watches are 3 or 5, enough to significantly distinguished and personality. Mechanical clocks and watches are equipped with the star movement, and was highlight the style.

101 Jewelry watch 1938

Joaillerie 101 1938

The time back a variety of arts and television news for 30 years, two platoon-shaped cut diamond let this 1938 re-engraved version with long-shape style show amorous feelings. Watch chain let the watch dial have a natural extension, The geometric strip that fine engraved side decoration let "decorative art" almost certain charm outlet. Needle and then the minute hand sweep over the 101 movement size of the dial, the time seems to impressed by a masterpiece of elegant watch.

101 Jewelry Watch Feuille

101 Jewelry Watch Nodo

101 Jewelry Watch Resille

The relationship of Luxury watch and Charity culture

From the birth of watch, a few centuries was past, the world has witnessed earth-shaking changes, but the charm of watch is still there. If we say that the eyes in the old imperial aristocracy, this accurate construction, craft exquisite works of art is only a symbol of wealth and status, then the gallant heroes of bygone forth in large numbers at today's, low-key but luxurious watches is also shoulder the mission of dissemination of cultural and charitable.

Omega hand with Sotheby's auction the numbered 8 limited edition watches

I do not know since when, we began to get used to wealth - Culture - Charity all three topic put into the same public area to discussion. Seems to exist between them have the same strain linked - when the accumulation of wealth have a certain extent, it will shake an olive branch to cultural, good social cultural atmosphere is offer root space for charity. This seems to has become inexorable law of historical development.

Jaeger-LeCoultre to support Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to promote environmental protection work throughout the world through the sale of the watches

For the charity auction

In the watches or luxury goods industry, the most representative way to do charity course ought to charity auctions. Each timely, major companies will take on his own most proud of products, proceeds from the auction will be donated to charitable or public organizations. Watch may be small, but not worth the low, coupled with its own charitable activities for its injection of a special commemorative significance, fall of the hammer price can often reach several times the starting price. Even if the operation of a small watch charity auction, which raised the donations is quite considerable. And charity auction can raise money, but also establish a positive corporate image of the company, but also narrowed the distance between the fans and the watch,it is indeed serve multiple purposes, the satisfaction of all.

End of the summer each year when the autumn, watches market began to peak season coming up, some companies will advance to preheating by charity auction. In the last year,after the just concluded Olympic Games, Omega had join Sotheby's auction house, auction the 35 limited edition numbered 8 watch. These watches include Omega 32, "Beijing Olympic Series" Limited Edition, and a valuable source of Omega 3 1932 re-engraved edition of the Hong Kong Observatory pocket watch chronographs. Proceeds from the auction were donated to the Chinese Athletes Educational Foundation (CAEF), as the special funds that assisting in the Wenchuan earthquake affected adolescents and young athletes.

Another one very exciting charity auction that held at the same time is Jaeger-LeCoultre and well-known American actor Leonardo DiCaprio join forces to create. The event Jaeger-LeCoultre brought two watches, respectively the world's first Master Compressor Extreme Lab series watch (carbon fiber and titanium tourbillon watches made of metal, with the two-time functionality) and the first ball Reverso Gyrotourbillon 2 Tourbillon watch , 2 watches priced at 30 million dollars and 40 million. Huge amount of auction revenue was donated to the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.

Earlier in this year, Jaeger-LeCoultre has also auctioned a newest Master Compressor Extreme W-Alarm watches, the designer of watches is use Scandola, Galapagos and the Tubbataha the three members of the World Natural Heritage List replacing the original time zone city. While the proceeds of the sale had naturally be injected into the UNESCO World Heritage Project.

Ten Most Expensive Watches in the World

1. Zadora Timepieces Manufacturer: Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof
The latest offering by Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof is a bee of oxidized palladium and micro pave. The bee is adorned with black and canary yellow diamonds, pear-shaped emerald eyes with a baroque south sea pearl in its mouth.Price: $150,000Image: A Zadora Timepiece

2. Titanic Watches Manufacturer: Romain Jerome
A Swiss jeweller is now offering watches made from the hull of the Titanic.The metal has been mixed with shipbuilding steel to make the casing. The black dials have been made by mixing the recovered coal burned in the Titanic's furnaces with ceramics.Price: $152,435

3. Double Tourbillon Manfacturer: Breguet
The Breguet Double Tourbillion comes hand-engraved with an image of the solar system.This double-tourbillon watch has a 95 per cent pure platinum case while the blued-steel Breguet hands are wound manually and do not contain springs.Price: $329,000

4. Opera One Manufacturer: Girard-Perregaux
This beautiful platinum timepiece includes an alligator band and features a Westminster minute repeater and tourbillon with three gold bridges, manual winding, 75-hour power reserve and a see-through backing. The watch has a power reserve indicator, a subsecond complication, a minute repeater and a truly elegant face.What differentiates Girard-Perregaux's Opera Three from other luxury watches is its ability to sound passing hours not with a beep but with actual tunes.Price: $495,000

5. Grande Complication Manufacturer: Blancpain
This wristwatch has a minute repeater, split-seconds chronograph, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, moon phase and an automatic winding mechanism. The sleek crocodile wristband further adds to the look. It takes the maker eight to 10 months to piece together all 740 components and only 18 of a limited run of 30 watches have been assembled till now.Price: $785,000

6. Tecnica Skeleton Chronograph Manufacturer: Parmigiani Fleurier
This watch hit the market early in 2008. Each unit of the watch includes a platinum case and other interesting features like a minute repeater, tourbillon and chronograph, as well as a cathedral chime.Price: $850,000

7. Classical Billionaire Tourbillion Manufacturer: Corum
The shimmering wristwatch is adorned with 850 diamonds and boasts a dazzling skeleton dial with skeleton hour and minute hands. The watch is manually wound with 90-hour power reserve and features Caliber CO-372 by Corum and La Joux-Perret. Rightly named so, the Billionaire Tourbillion comes in many versions with price ranging from $325,000 to $998,000. Only 10 pieces are in production.Price: $998,000

8. Big Bang Chronograph Manufacturer: Hublot, Bunter SA
The renowned watchmaker, Hublot, in alliance with a diamond-setting workshop, Bunter SA, designed and developed an elite watch dubbed Big Bang.The $1-million Big Bang boasts a fully invisible setting that makes the material disappear. Only things that can be seen are the diamonds.The credit goes to the craftsmen who accomplished the tedious job of making this exclusive watch, which was not feasible a few years ago.Price: $1 milllion

9. Tour de l'Ile Manufacturer: Vacheron Constantin
Vacheron Costantin's Tour de l'Ile was designed in 2005. The collectible piece is also the most complicated double-face watch, and only produced in a limited edition of seven.This 834-part watch took over 10,000 man-hours to be made and features an 18-carat silver gold dial with a hand-sewn alligator leather band and pink gold buckle.It touts an original combination of horological complications and astronomical indications forming 16 different points, including a minute repeater, sunset time, perpetual calendar, second time zone, and a tourbillon device.Price: $1.5 million

10. Joaillerie 101 Manchette Manufacturer: Jaeger-LeCoultre
In this watch,a unsystematic series of polished or gem-set links (a jewellery puzzle) hides the exalted Calibre 101.It'ss wonderful to look for the time through the gold, diamonds and onyx cabochons.The wristwatch is festooned with 576 diamonds and comes in 18-carat white gold. The versions with Onyx have 400 diamonds and 11 onyx cabochons.Price: Unknown at the moment