Jaeger-LeCoultre Watches

Jaeger-LeCoultre still occupies the same place in the village of Le Sentier, in the Vallee de Joux, where Charles Antoine LeCoultre set up home in 1833. Jaeger’s name comes from the merger of the house a hundred years ago with Edward Jaeger, the French manufacturer of marine chronometers that, after working for the firm for twenty years, became a partner. In the late nineteenth century, the company specialized in the manufacture of chronographs, minute repeaters and clocks alarmed, and in 1903 was making the most slender of the world. He was in 1931 when Jaeger-LeCoultre produced the clock that gave him international fame, the “Back”, in which the rectangular box could be rotated so that by giving back the delicate mechanism was shielded from the outside. He was designed at the request of the British officers serving in India and that they wanted to have a watch that could withstand the rigors of a game of polo. The “Reverse” is still the most representative of the mark, with the “Reverse Tourbillon”, the 60th anniversary model (1991), the “Back Chronograph retrograde” and the “Reverse 101″, which is the mechanism world’s smallest.