Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Memovox Q1708470 Jaeger-LeCoultre Watch Review

[@FirestormAA]

Jlc is seriously a high horology watch markers. They always innovate & doing what others is not doing. Love their timepieces & great brand history.

[@henrywest7217]

That's got enough cool for a whole wardrobe of watches!

[@AlexOsha]

I want this one... I do wish the inner rotating bezel were lumed at least at the triangle index though.

[@AlexOsha]

This one is now mine :) Just waiting for it to arrive!

[@anthonystevens8683]

Great review Tim once again. A JLC Memovox is definitely on my err... watch list, time to keep saving. A Master control or Polaris... I have plenty of time to ponder while saving.

[@loaded2820]

It is a great watch, I have one with a steel bracelet, but I must advise against using it to time your dives with the alarm. Whilst you can hear it easily underwater, you can't set it precisely enough and if you rely on it, you aren't checking the time as often and may overstay your welcome and end up sleeping with the fishes. I'd recommend using the internal rotating ring to set your time to the minutes and, sure, use the alarm as a back up and to impress your dive buddies! I think this is the best of the Master Compressor series.

[@pamtnman1515]

I use the alarm on travel and actually enjoy hearing it

[@VZnothingmore]

Just love his work. Thanks, great watch. ordered mine a day ago.

[@justinjue4848]

Just bought one. Can’t wait to play w alarm

[@the1916companywatchreviews]

Thanks Justin Jue! If you have a quick second, click through to our site and write a review of the watch. Our customers love to read about real world experience when shopping on our website. Here's the link: www.thewatchbox.com/shop/Jaeger-LeCoultre-Master-Q1708470.html Thanks in advance!

[@justinjue4848]

@@the1916companywatchreviews oops, meant I got one online elsewhere a couple days before I saw this video. But love Tim’s vids- keep it up!

[@the1916companywatchreviews]

Hi Justin - you can still leave your review of the watch. These reviews are meant to be more about the experience of owning the watch, not the WatchBox purchasing experience. Thanks for your support!

[@pamtnman1515]

@@the1916companywatchreviews i followed the link here to your website and was unable to find a place to leave a review. This is a great watch. It is actually practical, for daily use, as opposed to watch complications showing where the sun and moon are located at any given quarter second.

[@FXSTB-i]

Top knowledge Tim

[@zoomlistings]

I'd love you to address if you think the new POLARIS MARINER MEMOVOX is out a whack pricewise. It's mad expensive.

[@robotube7361]

Gorgeous

[@AlexOsha]

Hi Tim, Do you consider the movement durable enough for sporting activity, compared to a baseline such as an ETA 2824-2? Strongly considering this one but want it to be, as you say, the *one* watch in my collection. Thanks!

[@pamtnman1515]

I’ve owned this exact watch since 2004, and it is plenty rugged. Needs lubrication every ten years and keeps precise time. I use the alarm on travel and actually enjoy hearing it. It’s an excellent watch for both dress and everyday use.

[@AlexOsha]

@@pamtnman1515 shortly after this video was posted, I bought this specific one ;) had it a little over a year now, wearing it every single day! It’s amazing!

[@pamtnman1515]

@@AlexOsha it’s one of the few expensive mechanical watches that is actually interesting and whose complications are practical. There’s a bazillion mechanical dive style watches available by a bazillion makers, and most of them are pretty ok. Not many are actually great. I just bought my future son in law the new Omega planet ocean seamaster with the sapphire back. It’s a nice watch, but priced too high. It’s at least as good/ well made as a Rolex, has the same functions, and is half the price, is another way of looking at it. All expensive mechanical watches have tradeoffs. This JLC Memovox Master Compressor has few or none. It’s quite perfect.

[@AlexOsha]

@@pamtnman1515 agreed, the problem with owning the jlc is that every other watch I look at is missing features in comparison!

[@federicopedata2950]

The calibre os not the 751?

[@pamtnman1515]

Did you ever change the straps?

[@reniersoto6257]

Really wish JLC produced a spiritual successor to the MC line. The polaris is so boring. Also, bring back the compressor crown JLC!

[@1000lightyrs]

Red you're dead ; White you're tight ; Blue you're through. :-))

[@TOM-C.]

This watch is for me, now off to buy my lottery ticket. 😁 Anyone know what this watch beats at? I can normally see the second hand ticking, but this one is smooth, just the way I prefer, and not many watches pull this off.

[@pamtnman1515]

It beats fast. And quietly.

[@DavidDatura]

A great allrounder but definitely not a dress watch!

[@kingadjust5422]

hublow is king!!! 👑👑👑👑👑

[@pamtnman1515]

😂

[@omar10213245]

who blows? hublot!

[@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339]

100m water resistance? And they call this a dive watch?

[@pamtnman1515]

I’ve been diving 47 years and never gone below 120 feet deep. The divers who go deeper than 120 feet are few in number, and usually working. 100m water resistance is more than enough

[@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339]

@@pamtnman1515 That’s not how water resistance works. A 100m water resistant watch *99% OF THE TIME* can’t realistically survive a 100 meter dive, or any diving for that matter.

[@pamtnman1515]

@@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339 i do not agree with your statement here at all. I have worn all kinds of watches on all kinds of dives from cold quarries to the east coast Atlantic ocean to up and down both coasts of the Florida Keys, and never seen any watch take on water. My old Hamilton “dive watch” would make today’s divers laugh, as would my old Timex “dive watch.” Granted my dives probably average 45 feet deep, with occasional forays to 75 feet, and the deepest a 120 foot wreck dive, but then again I’m not a professional underwater welder. And neither are you and neither are 99.8% of SCUBA divers. The demand for watches with true deep waterproof capability is extremely small, and watches with it are never going to encounter those depths. This situation is a classic American attitude wanting everything to be bigger, badder, stronger, faster, deeper etc, even if those characteristics aren’t necessary

[@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339]

@@pamtnman1515 Let me get this straight… you dont understand how depth ratings on watches work so you then decide that I’m some stupid country bumpkin for being right? Moving your arms, swimming, jumping into water, etc. increases the pressure on the case of the watch. If you take a 100m watch to 100m as soon as you slightly move to swim back to the surface, you increase the pressure. If you move more vigorously or should I say more realistically at a realistic depth for non-scuba, you can achieve this as well. Additionally, a watch with a higher depth rating means you can take it to the same depth but it will be more resilient. A 200m watch is always better than one with a 100m depth rating when you’re in water. And as I stated, the MAJORITY of the time, watches can’t go to the rated depth, but sometimes they can, which is more common in the past. This is the depth that they can realistically be taken to, accounting for the fact that you will be moving. The first generation of Rolex submariner, and all old dive watches for that matter, had depth ratings of 100m. Yet they were still dive watches, because that 100m accounted for this, as did your old dive watches. Sure, modern submariners with depth rating of 300m are still tougher, but not 3 times as tough.

[@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339]

@@pamtnman1515 Also you shouldn’t be arguing with all of those argumentative fallacies. You may say you’re old enough to have been diving for 47 years, but you sure don’t act like it.

[@CubanBBQ]

Hideous

[@pamtnman1515]

And highly functional