Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Eight Days Perpetual 18-karat Rose Gold Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com Ah yes, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Eight Days Perpetual.. in 18-karat rose gold. JLC knows complications and high horology. The Le Sentier-based maison known as the "watchmaker's watchmaker" has been the first-choice engineering solution for brands such as Patek Philippe, Cartier, Vacheron Constantin, Audemars Piguet, Breguet, and many others for the better part of two centuries. Naturally, when a firm like that decides to sell a complicated wristwatch under its own marquee, the result will stun. Enter the Master Perpetual Eight Days in 18-karat rose gold. It's a winning combination of a complete perpetual calendar and a long power reserve to avoid the delicate process of resetting the displays. Perpetual calendars and eight day movements are house specials at luxury watch powerhouse Jaeger-LeCoultre. This Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Perpetual Eight Days is a value standout. Cognizant of the fact that perpetual calendar owners tend to be collectors with a "rotation" of watches, JLC combines their historic three-barrel "8-Day" base movement (a house special since the 1930s) with one of the world's finest perpetual calendar systems. If a collector cycles through his weekly roster while leaving a conventional perpetual alone, that watch will run out of mainspring wind before its turn in the rotation arrives; resetting a perpetual calendar is never fun, and JLC's massive "reserve de marche" avoids this inconvenience. If the worst comes to pass, an