Over the past 190 years, Jaeger-LeCoultre has distinguished itself as one of many world’s most revered watch manufacturers by means of its iconic designs and devotion to conventional watchmaking crafts. Whereas merchandise and applied sciences have advanced considerably over the past two centuries, discovering new methods to attain ever-greater precision has remained the model’s tenet from the outset. This month, from September tenth to twenty fourth, Jaeger-LeCoultre pays homage to this legacy with “Pioneering Precision,” a brand new travelling exhibition and an accompanying sequence of Atelier d’Antoine Discovery Workshops on the model’s Madison Avenue flagship boutique. (Watch lovers on the West Coast, you are in luck: the occasion will transfer to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Beverly Hills Boutique on Rodeo Drive from October fifth to 18th.)
Jaeger-LeCoultre’s dedication to precision started within the nineteenth century with the Maison’s founder, Antoine LeCoultre, whose obsession with bettering the watchmaking course of led him to invent quite a lot of machines for precisely measuring and slicing small parts, together with the Millionometre, the primary gadget able to measuring a micron. Because the model approaches its 2 hundredth anniversary, the pursuit of precision stays as essential as ever. For proof, one must look no additional than the Duometre Chronograph Moon and Duometre Heliotourbillon Perpetual, two new watches which might be the centerpieces of the travelling exhibit.
