Clock manufacturer and high-end Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre, in their partnership with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, got the winning bid of $14,606 at the fourth yearly online auction of the Deep Sea Vintage Chronograph held March 15, 2012. The profits from the auction have been dedicated to care for a marine site in the Philippines […]

The Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the film “The Artist” at the 84th Annual Academy Awards was won by French actor Jean Dujardin. For this memorable evening, the star wore a Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox Tribute to Deep Sea watch, an elegant re-edition of the world’s initial diver’s watch featuring an alarm function. Jean […]

The new action film by Relativity Media, Act of Valor, opens February 24 in theaters and stars active-duty Navy SEALs, along with actors Roselyn Sanchez, Jason Cottle, Alex Veadov and Nester Serrano. Watch enthusiast will not be able to miss the real-life SEALs featured in the movie are wearing Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Compressor Diving Automatic Navy […]

Since 1931 men and woman have been wearing Reverso watches on their wrist as a discreet ornament of their emotions. On the 80th anniversary of the Reverso in 2011, Jaeger-LeCoultre opened the “Virtual Museum” where all can come and share their inspiration and admiration with other Reverso lovers, such as Dev Patel. The British actor […]

Jaeger Le Coultre has created the Atmos Marqueterie clock based on ‘The Kiss,” a famous piece of work by artist Gustav Klimt. Klimt to created the Mosaic in 1904 using  a piece of art that would build on what his core strength would be; mosaics using 1,200 pieces of wood, each covered with gold leaf […]

  After previewing in Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore, Antiquorum will present a 452 piece collection  modern and vintage timepieces at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong on February 26. The collection includes three very rare and highly complicated Jaeger-LeCoultre watches including the white gold Gyrotourbillon One, No.02/20. The watch is a highly complicated 18K […]

There are now as many supermodels as super watches heating up the scene at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva. Eva Herzigova, Helen Svedin and Adriana Lima were all spotted during the weeklong festivities in January, as were notables such as Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen and Ewan McGregor. But the spotlight never […]

The Richemont Group, owner of brands such as Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Van Cleef & Arples, and Vacheron Constantin declared their financial results for Q4 on the same day they opened Salon International De La Haute Horolgie (SIHH) show in Geneva. There was a sturdy growth in sales across the board, with America up 24% over last […]

The World Luxury Association announced the world’s leading luxury brands with Cartier positioned first in the jewelry group and Patek Philippe leading the luxury watch category. Watch brands also making the list included Vacheron Constantin, Piaget, Jaeger-Le Coultre, Piguet, Audemars Piguet, Blancpain, Rolex, Breguet, IWC and Franck Muller. Like Haute Time? Join our Facebook page […]

China has overtaken the US and has grow to be the market with the highest demand for luxury watches, according to a new report by Digital Luxury Group, the leading digital market researcher in the industry. The information is based on millions of intentions expressed by independent and anonymous consumers searching for luxury watch brands […]

We're just back from one of the central events of the watch lover's (and watch journalist's) year: the Salon International Haute Horlogerie in Geneva, where luxury watch brands under the aegis of the Richemont Group (as well as a few other brands that prefer the relative calm of the SIHH to the rugby-scrum hurly-burly of the Other Watch Fair, BaselWorld) show what's new and (we hope) exciting for 2012.

  At a Montblanc dinner last night I was seated across from super model Eva Herzigova, the brand’s new ambassador. She was modelling the brand’s diamond jewelry, and I asked her if I could take her picture. She posed for a few minutes and I took pictures, but then asked, suddenly, who I was taking […]

  Last month at Paris’ Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Unique Auction not only brought out some top bidders but also set ten world records. This was the largest Jaeger-LeCoultre collection ever offered for sale. Of the 565 pieces from the 180 years of Jaeger-LeCoultre history, approximately 345 were sold with the vintage watches including pocket watches, divers and […]

The Reverso watch line has been an iconic image of Art Deco style for Jaeger LeCoultre since its inception of the first Reverso in 1931. It is an accomplishment for a brand to be successful for such a long time; it is even more impressive that the Reverso’s style is still as popular and acclaimed […]

Go into any boutique that sells luxury watches and you’ll be confronted with a scale of prices that rise sharply as watches become more complicated.  At the pinnacle is the complication known as the tourbillon (French for “whirlwind.”)  If you’ve never seen one before, one look and you’ll remember it forever; it’s a rotating spiderweb […]

What goes around, comes around –call them ultra thin or extra flat, thin dress watches are back, and a rose by any other name would be just as elegant.  Though a newcomer to fine watchmaking in recent years might be forgiven for not knowing it, making a thin watch (and wearing one) was for decades […]