Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Reserve De Marche 1378480 Showcase Review

See this watch online: https://goo.gl/MgRp9V Greetings and welcome to the world of Jaeger-LeCoultre. Today, I'll be your guide to the Master Ultra-Thin Reserve De Marche. 39 mm and stainless steel. Spectacular metallic blue dial. This was one of the most talked about references of the 2017 new model year. You can see it and the entire family of Jaeger-LeCoultre fine time pieces on our website govbergwatches.com. The story of this watch begins with a robust high polished stainless steel double deployant clasp. It loops with the opposite side of the strap to provide insurance against droppage while donning or removing it bedside. It's paid with a suitably ultra-thin alligator leather strap, black alligator on top, monotone stitch, folded edge. Very low in profile. It features a supple and comfortable calfskin on the underside. The lugs are wonderfully sensuous featuring flared polished bevels, dramatic character lines, soft and sensuous curves. All at the same time it gives way to a beautifully defined case band crease in junction with the conical bezel. The bezel providing one more step up to the sapphire crystal. Ensuring that though this watch is ultra thin in profile, never the less it does have a distinctly masculine character with those hard, beautifully rendered creases visible from any angle framing a dial that can only be described as an event in and of itself. You can see the metallic sheen. It's almost a combination of a lacquered richness and a metallic vividness. Everything about the dial is sensational. From the balance of its power reserve, radial date and small seconds to the sheer legibility of everything from the fasted dofeins at center to the polished and hand applied indices at the station of the hours. Now this is a long running series in the Jaeger-LeCoultre catalog with the first automatic winding power reserve indicator watch. The Caliber 481 Powermatic Series debuting back in 1948. Now the series continues super charged for 2017 with this metallic blue dial. It has immense character viewed from any angle its reactive. It's dynamic. It's really never the same watch twice thanks to the sheer luster of that dial. Difficult to describe, much less convey on video. It must be seen in person. On the reverse side of the watch an ultra thin manufacture automatic Jaeger-LeCoultre caliber 938-1. You can see ultra thin watch making in the form of the open barrel giving way to bridges with linear Coat de Geneve or stripes likewise the gold winding mask skeletonization blazon with linear stripes of its own. It's born on unlubricated high efficiency ceramic rotor bearings and operates with unidirectional winding action and you can see the reduction gear right next to it. Unidirectional in practice proving more efficient than bidirectional. Now the balance beats away at 4 Hz or 28,800 vibrations per hour and you can see it just below my thumb. It's born with a free sprung adjustment mechanism. A free sprung balance better able to take and hold a precise regulation in the face of bumps and disruptions on the wrist. Now the watch features a superb 5 bar or 50 meters water resistance. Exceptional for the dress watch class in which 2-3 bar or 20-30 meters is considered to be standard. The watch also features a stop seconds function such that when you pull the crown out the watch will stop beating and you can set it precisely to the second against a reference time. As ever the power reserves scale keeps track in real time of the hours of autonomy remaining and you'll see as I wind the watch the power reserve draws towards 43 hours fully energized. This watch is a wonderful continuation of an ancient manufacture tradition from those very first caliber 481 Powermatics to the most recent vivid metallic blue Master Ultra-Thin Reserve de Marche series. The Reserve de Marche series is simply been Jaeger-LeCoultre house classic. See it and the entire collection on our website https://goo.gl/GGMFCH.