Jaeger LeCoultre Master Compressor Watches

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.

The thing about watches is, at their basic, all are tech-proof. Most of the timepieces we know today have the same basic mechanism they have had when watches became an important accessory �C an wrist-ament all well-heeled had to possess. So when Jaeger-LeCoultre decided to celebrate his own roots, there was nothing better than being inspired from one of the its own cult pieces, Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso. Created first in 1931 for colonial polo players, who feared their timepieces would become scratched while in action, the Reverso has since become a benchmark by which most rectangular watches are measured. Now in his 80th year of glory, Jaeger-LeCoultre decide to pay tribute by bringing an Ultra Thin version that mimics its older cousin completely. Inside the watch is JLC manually-wound and hand-decorated ultra-thin movement, the Caliber 822. Offered in limited and non-limited editions, Reverso will be available in steel and pink gold.