"Each year luxury Swiss watch brand Jaeger-LeCoultre releases a few so called "jewelry watches." These rare creations for both men and woman are experiments in (often) excess, and design. This is where to look if you prefer your watches diamond covered, but also where you'll find some beautiful artistic creations. For 2010 one of the haute jewelry watch from Jaeger-LeCoutlre is the Master Tourbillon Wild. In an 18k rose (also in white) gold case, the piece is really quite stunning. Decorated with diamonds on the bezel and the lower edges of the case and bezel, it fees like a building outlined with lights. The art deco style motif on the dial feels like an abstract cityscape to me. The buildings emanating from the tourbillon in the center. More diamonds decorate the ring around the tourbillon aperture, in addition to other places on the dial. Inside the piece is a in-house made Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 978 automatic tourbillon movement. Likely sized for ladies, this is a rare and beautiful creation."
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CHRIS LIVE AKA SHAKER SAYS: The much heralded tourbillon movement may indeed be the most terrific exemplar of both true artistry and mechanical ingenuity in the watch world today. Originally introduced in 1795 by the French-Swiss master watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet as a very practical means to deftly combat the adverse effects of gravity when a timepiece is rotated, the tourbillon complication has now become the ultimate symbol of watchmaking virtuosity and very few luxury firms do it better than Jaeger-LeCoultre.
No stranger to precedent setting innovations themselves, this storied house of horological majesty, founded in 1833 by Antoine LeCoultre, has continued to excel in the arena of high end complicated achievement. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Tourbillon Wild (Art Deco) Watch is yet another beautiful addition to their brilliant "Master" series.
Where other cloudy after-market diamond studded watches fail, such pieces as the Master Tourbillon Wild watch succeed because this is far from your typical "iced out" rapper's nouveau riche simulated stones wet dream. No, Jaeger-LeCoultre has taken 1 step back to take 2 enormous design steps forward, producing a visually and technically complex 18k rose (NOTE: Also available in white gold) encased work of art that tells a whirlwind of a tale (NOTE: "Tourbillon" is French for "whirlwind" ... suckaaaaaaaaaas!) through a miniature metropolis cityscape set ablaze in diamonds. The unmistakable look of this watch combines all of the decadently decorative elements of the Neoclassical, Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism, and Futurism movements that together have made Art Deco design an enduring symbol of romantic 20th Century elegance.
Although I have found no conclusive reports, this watch seems to be *Cue Lord Finesse "Funky Technician" Voice* "Strictly for the ladies" ... lol. Yeah, Fred Astaire would most definitely have blessed Ginger Rogers with 1 of these dandies ... lol. Good shit!
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No stranger to precedent setting innovations themselves, this storied house of horological majesty, founded in 1833 by Antoine LeCoultre, has continued to excel in the arena of high end complicated achievement. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Tourbillon Wild (Art Deco) Watch is yet another beautiful addition to their brilliant "Master" series.
Where other cloudy after-market diamond studded watches fail, such pieces as the Master Tourbillon Wild watch succeed because this is far from your typical "iced out" rapper's nouveau riche simulated stones wet dream. No, Jaeger-LeCoultre has taken 1 step back to take 2 enormous design steps forward, producing a visually and technically complex 18k rose (NOTE: Also available in white gold) encased work of art that tells a whirlwind of a tale (NOTE: "Tourbillon" is French for "whirlwind" ... suckaaaaaaaaaas!) through a miniature metropolis cityscape set ablaze in diamonds. The unmistakable look of this watch combines all of the decadently decorative elements of the Neoclassical, Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism, and Futurism movements that together have made Art Deco design an enduring symbol of romantic 20th Century elegance.
Although I have found no conclusive reports, this watch seems to be *Cue Lord Finesse "Funky Technician" Voice* "Strictly for the ladies" ... lol. Yeah, Fred Astaire would most definitely have blessed Ginger Rogers with 1 of these dandies ... lol. Good shit!
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