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Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving Pro Geographic Navy SEALs watchJLC, one of the Real Swiss Manufactures still producing their own tiny ticking masterpieces, has revealed its new highly sophisticated Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving Pro Geographic Navy SEALs men’s diving watch at the SIHH 2009 forum.Featuring a mechanical depth gauge hidden inside an ominous-looking compression chamber on the left side of the 18-carat pink gold case, the timekeeper is powered by an in-house 975C-based Calibre 979 automatic movement.Beating at 28,800 vibrations per hour (that’s exactly 8Hz, the frequency your brain likes to work at,) this gorgeous movement has a power reserve of 48 hours and features a 24-hour dual time-zone complication.At this time, Jaeger-LeCoultre has released just one hi-res photo of the watch, but it’s quite clear that the Navy SEALs edition of the timepiece differs from the original Master Compressor Diving Pro Geographic only with its case material, color of the depth gauge meter and a scratch-resistant ceramic bezel. Even the rubber strap looks the same.Anyway, it is really nice to have a real diving watch on your wrist. If you can afford one, that is.

If nobody knows exactly which woman inspired the first ladies' watch from the Manufacture, Jaeger-LeCoultre has, however, always devoted considerable attention to ladies' timepieces in terms of both aesthetics and mechanism excellence. The muse could have been a beautiful actress like Diane Kruger who has chosen Jaeger-LeCoultre timepieces to wear at the Oscars Ceremony and Party, held in Los Angeles (California) on Sunday evening (March 7th 2010). Diane Kruger attended the Oscars for "Inglourious Basterds", the movie of Quentin Tarantino. She was wearing the diamond bracelet Art Deco 101, which houses the smallest watch movement in the world invented by the Swiss Watch Manufacture, the famous 101 mechanical movement. (Picture with the cast, including Christoph Waltz, awarded best Supporting Actor). For the Vanity Fair party, Kruger was wearing a 1949 timepiece taken from Jaeger-LeCoultre museum in Switzerland, a watch enclosed in 225 diamonds specially lent for this occasion.