One VERY Strange Feature About This Jaeger-LeCoultre Watch...

[@watchfinder]

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[@jd4062]

The only conversations you will have is convincing people that it’s not fake battery quartz watch.

[@happysmile2627]

People who don't know much about watches and people who know quite a bit about watches always ask this question.. haha

[@tenzinsmith]

Which would be a lot of fun when you flip it over and show them.

[@BabyJesus66]

Nobody's going to start a conversation with you about your second hand 😂😂

[@snoogiebug]

I thought the exact same thing. These people are not living in reality

[@wakikokwak]

Someone did with my spring drive tho. lol

[@tiebei2548]

The only watch anyone has ever commented on is my cheapest, the F91. There's only two watches that people know, and the other is the Submariner.

[@latenttweet]

Sure they will at work where it’s other watch guys. But I work with 5,000 other engineers so maybe that’s different lol

[@ToastedMicrowave69]

I would

[@tarheelred]

*Casio quartz guy here. I’m very impressed by this watch and this watch company.*

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

My $30 Casio quartz watch is a monster at keeping the correct time. 🥰😉😎

[@tarheelred]

@ *Right on!*

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

@@tarheelred I mean, I watch a lot of these watch channels and of course I’m not a watch guy… I’m a guy with a watch. I’m not impressed by all this stuff. I suppose if I had more money I might like a really nice watch. I have an old psycho diver… Automatic watch big chunky thing I love that thing. I also have a very nice 1980s Omega Constellation… The one with the real working clamps on it. It’s handsome and delicate at the same time. A gift from my father.

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

And yes, it’s… Horrors! Quartz. But that’s part of it… It’s very slim low profile. Yes it’s true. I probably don’t think it’s as cool as a mechanical or automatic movement… But I still really like it.

[@tarheelred]

@@JohnnyArtPavlou *I’ve yet to add a mechanical timepiece to my beloved Casio collection. I’d probably like for my introductory piece to be a Seiko 5 or something. I’ve seen ‘em on eBay for ca. $100. Whatever and whenever that first mechanical movement timepiece I acquire is, it has to be one that’s manually wound.*

[@MrPician]

This is really for those in the know, not for kindergarden collectors.Fantastic piece.

[@robinrai4973]

Springdrive being smooth quartz 🤝 this thing being mechanical and the opposite

[@itsfaiz2967]

Spring drive is not quartz. Think of it as hooking your charger up to an exercise bike rather than to a powerstation (ie. A quartz battery) mechanically very different

[@tenzinsmith]

My dream 2-watch collection would be this and a spring drive

[@tesmat1243]

It's a remontoire complication, it was originally used to make the torque supplied by the mainspring as constant as possible, in this watch it was adapted to make the second hand tick once a second

[@LuisMiguel52-iq6rz]

Habring2 watches have a similar movement and there are beautiful.

[@tenzinsmith]

If you look closely you can see it doesn’t move instantaneously like a quartz does. The second hand drifts slightly before ticking every time. This is one of my favorite watches ever and will be my first “big” watch purchase.

[@Chainwhips]

Insert meme if guy at the corner of a party, "No one knows this is an auto watch with a true seconds hand"

[@fredlao6655]

This is a common feature of modern day Timex watches .😁

[@viniciusmonteiro6641]

Cool thing the seconds hand wants to jump and can barely stay put haha

[@robertsullivan4773]

Very cool 😊

[@sumitgenzyme]

Will go for a quartz watch

[@Slimeacation]

Awful watch owners in the comments. If you're not enjoying the engineering that goes into making a watch tick, then you shouldn't own one.

[@tiebei2548]

At least a tourbillion is interesting to look at. This is a Swiss Miss.

[@Slimeacation]

@tiebei2548 Cry

[@KC-bv9kf]

No need to discuss wine vintages with people pouring wines from boxes.

[@tiebei2548]

@@KC-bv9kf The emperor has no clothes

[@tenzinsmith]

@@tiebei2548I know it’s a hot take, but I unironically think this is cooler than a tourbillon, which is overdone and mostly unoriginal in execution these days and can be found on a $300 sea-gull based watch from China. And before you try to say a quartz does the same thing as this, no it does not. They are not comparable movements and besides, the seconds hand doesn’t quite tick like a quartz does anyway. Trying to compare the two is like saying Patek/ AP/ VC should just put quartz movements in anything they make without a seconds hand, or that you can replicate a tourbillon with a battery-powered motor attached to a wheel. It misses the point of watchmaking, at least in the modern era. Mechanical movements are far more than just a “sweeping” seconds hand (which spring drive does better anyway). We all have phones anyway that tell perfect time so who even gives a shit about all this antiquated technology?

[@boingobrungis5216]

one of my dream watches, dead seconds is my favourite watch complication

[@saranath0317]

Just get a $15 quartz watch, it’s the same😅

[@SIMARJEETMEHTA]

Many people will assume the JLC is quartz -- and think it's a fake!

[@newbiesrock8206]

Which makes it special! Take my fictitious €200k!

[@jamied931]

Explaining this to anyone who does not care anout watches will be a horrible conversation starter, but man if they do, what a conversation you will have 😂

[@orthoh2224]

I want the same with an eternal calendar and a gyrotourbillon please

[@wjackter]

I love this watch

[@aliwesker]

bros be compensating

[@chrisp.5272]

At that point why not just get a Microbrand Swiss quartz watch with a Ronda 763. Perfect really, far more accurate and no real servicing costs if you just do it yourself.

[@tenzinsmith]

In short, because of the JLC movement. If you look closely, the seconds hand does move differently than a quartz. And if you flip it over, the mechanism is absolutely amazing to watch in action.

[@saranath0317]

Only conversation I’m having with this one is convincing that it’s not a fake watch.

[@tenzinsmith]

If they know about watches, they’ll know what a dead-beat complication is. And if not, well just flip it over and they’ll see for themselves.

[@AyeJay99]

I'm OCD when it comes to watches. The most appealing part of a sweeping auto seconds hand is the avoidance of the hand not striking perfectly on the indices. I'll pass on this.....

[@akhliqubur]

Newbies said thats fake watch 😂😂

[@susokraut]

Why does is say 200,000 GBP?

[@Chou005]

Same as Ferdinand watches

[@tmgco]

I’m a huge JLC fan but I simply don’t see the point of this watch. Its saving grace is that it’s not an expensive feature, unlike the ridiculously expensive and totally useless Tourbillion feature.

[@kresimirpleic]

Relax, you're not their target customer.

[@tmgco]

@@kresimirpleic who is their target customer?

[@itsfaiz2967]

Did you watch the whole video? It's a way to pay tribute to how timekeeping was fine way back in the day. But I agree with the other comment, relax. You want something functional use your phone. A watch is something you buy with your heart. Don't like it? Don't buy it. But don't judge others for buying it. It's their money and they choose to spend it on this

[@tmgco]

@@itsfaiz2967 🙄

[@tenzinsmith]

You just don’t get it. This is one my favorite watches of all time; it’s brilliant.

[@marvinbrich1580]

That's bs.. Why should I buy an automatic watch with a quartz 2nd hand? 🤔😂

[@JLa748]

i wouldnt dare the conversation of such an investment doing what a 1 dollar quartz does

[@nigelhorwood3583]

Mechanical movement (for a nice smooth sweeping seconds hand) .... made to look like a cheaper quartz 😢 .... I'm out !

[@orthoh2224]

This makes the use of energy the same whatever the reserve of the watch. So, it actually improves the precision of the watch. And quartz are just cheaper because we can make lots of them. On the other hand, having a perpetual calendar is possible even with a quartz (no digital) watch for a hundredth of the price. I have a Tissot quartz perpetual calendar that does the job for 250 CHF. The calibre of an IWC or Patek cost less than 2000 CHF all model included so they could greatly improve their price point and produce more. There is no real poetry in selling so high.

[@skorpoolr]

@@orthoh2224I think they take issue with this movement because on the dial side you don’t get to see the signature mechanical sweeping of the seconds hand (yes I’m aware some quartz watches have a sweeping seconds hand) but a singular tick per second, like most quartz movements. Sure it’s cool from an engineering standpoint, but who cares when you look at the dial, and it looks cheap.

[@antonystark9240]

@@orthoh2224 Interesting point about the use of mechanical energy. Perhaps a better way to do that would be a clutch mechanism on the mainspring that provides a truly constant force until the wind is exhausted. Such mechanisms exist, but perhaps not in watches. Quartz watches are cheaper because they don't have the really delicate, precision parts of a mechanical watch. That also allows for mass production, yielding further cost savings. The prices on IWC or Patek are luxury surcharges --- the price is far greater than the cost of production. Fake IWC and Patek can be made for a small fraction of the cost of the real thing, and are almost indistinguishable.

[@orthoh2224]

@skorpoolr their issue is that one tic per second make it look like a quartz watch. They probably don't know how quartz watch saved the industry, especially in Switzerland. They also don't know that a mechanical watch tuned at 3600 bph with have only one tic second.

[@orthoh2224]

@antonystark9240 Yes, that was part of my point. The mechanism of almost any watch costs at most a few hundreds. All the rest is just marketing. For the mechanical use of energy afaik this is the way all true second mechanical watches work with slight variations on how the energy is transfered. I prefer mechanical watches for the beauty of "engineering" it has, that you can know a tremendous amount of time knowledge and even more in such a small space on your wrist, also that it does not use battery. But at the end of the day, if you don't wear it at some point, you lose track of time, and you rely solely on digital clocks to put them back on time 😅

[@the_9ent]

Cool but unnecessary. Just put in a quartz movement.

[@SacreDro]

200k, so many rich snobs.