With their elegant proportions and restrained styling, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Ultra Thin collection epitomizes the sophisticated dress watch and is enriched by a magnificent new interpretation of the Master Ultra Thin Tourbillon Enamel.
Contrasting with the fully polished 40 mm pink gold case, the blue dial of the new timepiece provides a dramatic backdrop for the tourbillon and the date display, and reflected light dances across the sunray pattern of the guillochage with every movement of the wrist. The hand-guilloché pattern is a work of immense precision and skill: each of the 180 ‘sun rays’ required six passages of the hand-operated rose engine lathe, making 1,080 lines altogether.
For Jaeger-LeCoultre, the tourbillon has been a key element in its pursuit of precision. Since creating its first tourbillon movement in 1946, the Manufacture has invented many new tourbillon configurations and different hairspring shapes – the latter possible only because it is one of the very few Maisons to possess the highly specialized skill of crafting hairsprings in-house.
Once the guilloché work on the main dial is completed, the master enameller applies Grand Feu enamel in multiple layers to create the desired intensity and depth of color. In the lower half of the dial, a laser-engraved seconds counter provides a visual anchor for the tourbillon aperture; a mirror-polished pink gold bridge secures the tourbillon cage and draws the eye deeper into the mechanism, its transparency and lightness amplified by the contrast with the color of the surrounding dial.
The strap is alligator in a shade of blue created to perfectly match the dial and, in a further touch of refinement, it is lined with small-scale alligator and fitted with a pink gold folding clasp. The movement powering the Master Ultra Thin Tourbillon Enamel is the latest generation of Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 978 with its 45-hour power reserve, which won an international chronometry prize in 2009. The calibre has been Jaeger-LeCoultre’s mainstay tourbillon movement ever since and received a comprehensive update in 2019 to harness new technology.
With its dramatically beautiful dial and sophisticated calibre, the new Master Ultra Thin Tourbillon Enamel is an eloquent expression of La Grande Maison’s philosophy of uniting technical virtuosity with enduring beauty and timeless aesthetics.
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