In use, the movement winds fairly smoothly, but the 6mm crown feels too large for the thin winding stem. You can feel it flex as you use it, and caution is definitely warranted to avoid damage. Owners of Swiss watches may be at first surprised that the 8200 series lack a disengage position, so winding [...]
January
31
I recommend visiting the site and poking around there. You will find particulars on all of the sonnerie functions and chimes – in addition to a little much more about not just how it operates, but exactly how to function the functions too. This really is almost unparalleled as watch information mill well known for [...]
January
31
First the 14k gold case is make of recycled gold. Not sure what the means, but I think that “recycling gold” is more a business than it is being eco-friendly. Maybe the gold is taken from industrial use, which is possible. Though I don’t consider women selling their jewelry to avoid their houses being foreclosed [...]
January
31
What Jaeger-LeCoultre did in the the ‘Reverso Curtain’ is literally take two relatively thin movements and place them back to back. The images here show you each of them and how they fit together. There is one crown to control them both and they are manually wound. It sounds as though JLC considers them one [...]
