Jaeger-LeCoultre Master World Geographic Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com The mid-2000s were a period of unbridled creative energy in La Grande Maison of Le Sentier. This Jaeger-LeCoultre Master World Geographic joined the parade of extraordinary complications as an SIHH 2006 debut. At 41.5mm in stainless steel, this automatic winding high horology complication offers value for money that no rivals can match. The Master World Geographic boasts a truly exceptional family tree. JLC's dual-time/world time watch takes its place alongside the Master Tourbillons, Compressors, Extreme Labs, and Minute Repeaters as proof-in-metal of JLC's resurrection from the firm's near-death experience of the 1980s. JLC, reduced to a backwater ebauche supplier by the mid-80s, only recovered the technical expertise to fashion a dual-time watch during the "rose gold Reverso" skill-recovery exercise of the 1990s. By the mid-2000, the muscular "Grande Maison" of historic lore was back and ready to launch complications with usability, durability, and value that no rival could duplicate. This Master World Geographic stands as one of the most impressive examples of the resulting creative torrent. At first glance, this watch strikes its user as the kind of timepiece only A. Lange & Sohne, Vacheron Constantin, Patek Philippe, and Audemars Piguet will undertake - and then only for a price deep into five figures (or more). JLC delivers all of the high-horology impact thanks to a cool silver-on-silver color scheme that allows each complication to sta