Raise your hand who wouldn't have wanted to empathize, even if only for a moment, in the shoes of Steve McQueen and the very rich gentleman thief Thomas Crown? The Thomas Crown Case is not simply a film, it is a photograph of a world, of an era that is certainly as fascinating as that of the 60s. Starting with the likes of Steve McQueen and the alluring Faye Dunaway, this classic [...]
At the Watches & Wonders in Geneva, Jaeger LeCoultre presented three new models, in which each is an expression of what the Le Sentier maison is able to achieve both in the mechanical and decorative fields. We are talking about the Master Grande Tradition 948, the Master Hybris Artistica 945 and the Polaris Perpetual Calendar. MASTER GRANDE TRADITION CALIBER 948 Let's start with the Master Grande Tra [...]
The Geneva edition of Watches & Wonders 2021 - forcibly made online by the pandemic - is wrapping up as I write this. While waiting to return to Shanghai for the second act of the event, the inevitable popularization of a common digital platform generated, par opposition, greater attention to the products of the event; the only nucleus of aggregations [...]
To celebrate the 1931th anniversary of the company's most iconic model, born in 2021 as a fairly simple watch, Jaeger-LeCoultre announces, for Watches & Wonders 185, the Reverso Hybris Mechanica Caliber 18 Quadriptyque, a super complication limited to ten pieces in white gold 185k. Caliber XNUMX is the first four-sided watch in the world and simultaneously the [...]
The Italian shooting of the film "House of Gucci" directed by Ridley Scott, a detective drama about the murder of Maurizio Gucci, continues in a heavily armored Milan. Adam Driver will play Guccio Gucci's late successor, while Lady Gaga will step into the shoes of Gucci's ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani, sentenced to 18 years in prison for having commissioned the death of her husband in March [...]
In the heart of the Swiss Jura, the Vallée de Joux embraces a serene and calm atmosphere through its forests and mountains. The purity of the sky reveals its deepest mysteries, making it the ideal place for astrologers to study the astral phenomenon. The new Master Grande Tradition Grande Complication takes advantage of over a century and a half of experience of the Jaeger-LeCou maison [...]
To complete the range of the new Jaeger-LeCoultre MASTER CONTROL collection, we find two other great classics, also rigorously modernized and updated for 2020, with a more casual style. As in all models in the range, the cases are finished with a combination of brushed and polished surfaces and, in addition, all models feature a sunray brushed dial, white to [...]
Presented for the first time in 1992, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control collection has always been the classic line of the house, with a range of models dedicated to technical rigor, certification and visual moderation. Its name derives from the fact that it was the first of the brand's collections to benefit from its pioneering "1000 Hours Control" certification. This new [...]
Today Perpetual Passion has decided to celebrate the birthday of an icon, as well as of a great figure in recent history: Queen Elizabeth II. The girl who was not destined to reign and was supposed to live a quiet life at the court of her paternal uncle Edward VIII, turns 94 today and is the longest reigning queen on the throne of England. Her Majesty's birthdays [...]