2018 Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Blue Réserve De Marche Q1378480
Ref: Q1378480

Points of Mention

This watch is sold with an original JLC box & JLC paperwork, as photographed. The watch comes paired with its original JLC-signed leather strap with JLC signed deployment clasp. The watch is from February 2018 and is in worn condition, however as you can see from the photos it is in great overall condition with few signs of wear. The watch comes with our 12-Months Warranty.

The Watch

Here we have a 2018 Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Blue Réserve De Marche Q1378480 with a curvaceous 39mm stainless steel case, the flowing bevel edge along the case leads to a beautifully curved lug and a lug-to-lug length of 46mm and a case thickness of 9.5mm ensuring a comfortable fit on your wrist. On the right side, we have a recessed pusher to change the date and a domed signed crown. A polished smooth bezel holds a slightly raised flat sapphire crystal above a stunning sunburst midnight blue lacquered dial. Applied dagger-shaped indexes mark the hours, at 3 o’clock a date ring, at 6 o’clock a crosshair continuous seconds and finally at 9 o’clock a power reserve crescent, Rhodium-plated dauphine hands complete this stunning elegantly poised dress watch and at 12 o’clock we have the Jaeger-LeCoultre motif. On the reverse, a screwed-down exhibition case back shows the automatic Jaeger-LeCoultre Cal.938/1, 41 jewels, beating at 28,800 beats per hour, made up of just 273 parts it has a gold skeletonised rotor and a ceramic ball bearing, expertly decorated with Cotes de Geneve and thermally blued screws. The watch comes fitted on its 21mm blue Alligator strap with a deployment clasp and the watch comes with its Jaeger-LeCoultre presentation box and paperwork.

Personal Note

The Brand

Antoine LeCoultre founded LeCoultre in 1833 in the small village of Le Sentier, Switzerland. By 1866, LeCoultre’s workshop had grown from home-run manufacturers spread across Switzerland to installing modern steam-driven machines to power the tools of all of the watchmakers moving them from their homes and bringing them together, in one central unit. Now named LeCoultre & Cie, the company became the very first manufacturer in the Vallée de Joux Switzerland. Antoine and his son  Elie LeCoultre employed more than 500 watchmakers in-house. In 1903 Edmond Jaeger, a watchmaker in Paris making watches for the French Navy, challenged the Swiss manufacturers to produce an ultrathin movement. Jacques-David LeCoultre, Elie’s son, rose to the challenge and created the world’s thinnest pocket watch, equipped with the LeCoultre 146 calibre, measuring just 1.38 mm thick. Over the following years, Jaeger and LeCoultre kept in touch, building a strong friendship and in 1937 Jaeger-LeCoultre was founded. In 2013 they celebrated their 180th Anniversary.  Creating iconic timepieces like the Reverso wristwatch to the brilliantly engineered Atmos clock. During the war years, the Mark VII pilot watches of the 1940s were so accurate the Royal Air Force used them as aerial navigation instruments; later they created the first automatic watch to house a power-reserve indicator in 1948 that was used by the US Army Air Corps. Jaeger-LeCoultre has developed and revolutionised the watch industry like no other manufacturer. Since 2000 they have been a fully owned subsidiary of the Swiss luxury group Richemont. This group includes Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, IWC Schaffhausen, Panerai, Piaget, Vacheron Constantin, Montblanc, Dunhill and Chloé.