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JLC Rectangular or Round Watches, what do you prefer ?

In its 175 years of History and Life, JLC offered quite a lot of Rectangular and Round Watches...

Among the Rectangular watches, we had the Uniplan ( which were also round watches ), the Duo Plan, and, of course, the most famous..Reverso.

But, at the same time, JLC offered several very interesting and great round watches, as the Pilot Watches, the Future Matic, the Triple Date, the Memovoxes, without forgetting the Gephysic, and Geomatic...

An ad from 1937 ( Credit to Marv ):



2 ads from 1934 ( Same Credit pic ):





Both Rectangular and Round Cases were pure marvels...









Credit pic: Dino, for this Triple Date Box and Papers...





So, during around 50 years, JLC offered a wide variety of watches, rectangular or round, complicated, or simple, sometimes original, always elegant...

Well, Watches for al tastes, but great tastes!

In the mid 70ies, JLC suffered with the Quartz era, and for the next 15 years, nothing very interesting to see till the Grand Reveil, this weird Perpetual Calendar, in 1989.



A few years before the Grand Reveil, JLC relaunched the Reverso...

Then, in the 90ies, till 2002, it was a bit the reign of the Reverso...

Do you remember thses gorgeous RG Reverso in LE, offering all the possible complications, and beginning with an Ode to the Reverso ( the 60eme ) ?



Looks like all the Creativity, the efforts were concentraded on the Reverso, at this moment, and that Round Watches, even if they existed, were a bit secondary for JLC...

Of course there were some nice round watches, as the Master Control, RDM, Geographic, and Memovox, but really, the Reverso was the King!

In the Early 2000, it was a bit the same...

JLC wanted to develop the Reverso in the platinum case with some great watches as the 70eme, the Reverso Platinum Nr 1, Nr 2, and the Extraordinary Skeleton Tourbillon.







Although beautiful watches, these Platinum Reversos weren't successful, and JLC began to re equilibrate a bit the offer, with some interesting round watches...

The Master Compressor watches, since 2002, with the Memovox in 2002: ( Credit pic: Al )



The EWC and Amvoxes I, II and III, since 2005:









The Reverso wasn' forgotten by JLC, as the Squadra is the Rectangular Sporty offer...







Are you a Classic Guy?

Once again, Round or Rectangular?





Crazy About High End complications???

Once again, Rectangular or Round?





Equation of time, Perpetual Calendar, View of the sky, Tourbillon...Wow!

And this Gyro II?



The offer in round watches is also very appealing...

Minute Repeater...



Perpetual Calendar:

With Gyro Tourbillon:



Without Gyro Tourbillon, but skeleton:



Elusive Chrono?



So, my friends, are you more in love with Rectangular or Round watches???

Waiting for your answers,

Best.

Nicolas This message has been edited by amanico on 2008-11-19 00:13:27 This message has been edited by amanico on 2008-11-22 02:34:28