Jaeger-LeCoultre Odysseus Chronographe Moonphase Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com/watches/jaeger-lecoultre/#watches The Jaeger-LeCoultre Odysseus Chronographe Moonphase is the missing link between JLC's glorious past and its peerless present. Blessed with both traditional mechanical drivetrains and quartz accuracy, this mecaquartz combines exotic engineering with a rose-and-yellow-gold 18-karat 34mm case. The icing on this singular fusion cuisine is a delectable lacquered dial. Rare, exotic, and discrete, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Odysseus Chronographe Moonphase was part of the series that helped pull beleaguered JLC back from the brink during the 1980s. Reduced to a virtual component supplier for other Swiss houses, JLC needed to make a provocative statement in its bid for resurrection. The Odysseus line delivered. Strong case lines including stepped bezels and fluted lugs produced the visual impact of far larger timepieces, but Odysseus models' traditionally thin profiles were elegance incarnate. Jaeger-LeCoultre invested this Odysseus Chronographe Moonphase with no one but two variants of gold; yellow gold comprises the case and lugs; the step of the bezel is rich rose gold. A lacquered dial in gloss off-white provides the Odysseus Chronographe with a lustrous face. The quality of Jaeger-LeCoultre's lacquered dial is indistinguishable from enamel, and this example retains outstanding physical condition. Playful flourishes of color abound. The vintage style pulsation scale or "doctor's calibration" is a brilliant blue; all chro