Kong shares an exclusive look into a Jaeger-LeCoultre dinner event in Hong Kong, hosted by "The Watch Magazine." The evening celebrated the Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon, a significant SIHH 2012 launch, with attendees experiencing JLC's novelties firsthand and gaining insights from guest speaker Dr. MTF.
Posting on behalf of Hong Kong Chai
On the night of 16 March, I attended an impressive Jaeger Le-Coultre dinner event organized by “The Watch Magazine”. The star watch of the night is the new Duometre a Spherotourbillon launched during the SIHH 2012!
Cocktail Time
We gathered at the Heritage 1881 JLC boutique and they have majority of the 2012’s novelties showing there and available for all the guests to try on.
Dinner Time
We moved on to St. George Restaurant at Hullett House for the dinner. Mr. Alfred Lung, publisher of The Watch Magazine and Mr.
Benjamin Aubanton , JLC’s Regional Communication director gave the
opening speech to welcome all the guests and the guest speaker of the
night was Dr. MTF!
Mr. Alfred Lung, publisher of The Watch Magazine
Mr. Benjamin Aubanton , JLC’s Regional Communication director
Guest speaker - Dr. MTF
MTF started with some history of JLC and mentioned that
JLC has more than 300 patents on the movements! Then he shared his
thoughts on what a haute horlogerie and also his views on the 2012
novelties. He then highlighted JLC’s stratospheric watches from the
past to present:
2004 - Gyrotourbillon,
2006 - Triptyque,
2007 - Gyrotourbillon 2,
2009 - Hybris Mechanica a Grande Sonnerie,
2010 - Master Grande Tradition Grnade Complication, Duometre a Quantieme Lunaire
MTF then mentioned the key features of Spherotourbillon which are:
The Duometre concept - that is energy from 1st barrel for regulating organ and energy from the 2nd barrel for display
The constant amplitude - amplitude variation to 10%
Adjustable to the nearest second
The flyback seconds hands
The carriage inclination at 20 degree.
After MTF’s presentation, we started the dinner!
After the main course - by then all of us were quite
full - but we were hungry to find out more about Spherotourbillon! So
Mr. Jean-Luc Faure, the Regional Operations Director, stood up and gave
us more information on the movement.
Mr. Jean-Luc Faure, Regional Operations Director of JLC
He showed us the a video on
the movement and talked about the dual wing movement concept, and how
this “one watch with two brains” works on the Spherotourbillon . The
first barrel drives the time-keeping (balace wheel and hands). The
second barrel drives the tourbillon cage so movement of the tourbillon
is uncoupled from the balance wheel. Thus, balance wheel oscillation and
amplitude are very stable.
For a more detail review on the watch, please see the link below :
jlc.watchprosite.com
After his speech, we moved on to dessert and had coffee.
Then of course the most exciting try-on time!
It was a very enjoyable evening, many thanks to JLC HK, The Watch Magazine, and Dr. MTF!
Regards
Hong Kong Chai
This message has been edited by Kong on 2012-08-07 03:54:55 
