Some of you may remember that, a few months ago, I sent my grandfather's watch , a Jaeger-LeCoultre Uniplan Etrier , to Le Sentier for a complete restoration . After asking if I could get some photos of the work in progress , I received the following docu...
I hope you will be very happy with it and it will give you many hours of pleasure. I think it’s a lovely model with a lot of character and charm so it certainly has a lot of potential. It will be very interesting to read your assessment of the final resul...
Thanks for the update! I hope the project will result in something fantastic! You are right: if you end up with the hands of the example you found online, it would look great! That lollipop counterbalance center second is magic! Mechanically brilliant for...
Hopefully they will be keen to do a good job. And I really think this particular model can end up looking great. Anyway even if the result turns out being disappointing, I would have regretted not having tried the adventure. Best, Emmanuel
The components look to be in great shape, and I totally love those blued sword hands, they are definitely cooler in my opinion than the simpler baton hands used in many Reversos.... Please keep us updated! 🙂
I don't know what they will opt for, but if they return it to specs, this dial with gold index would be fitted with gold (or at least golden) hands - except for the central second that is always steel (I guess for solidity reasons). More specifically, thi...
Very helpful and much appreciated. I must say that gold dauphine hands and blued steel central seconds hand would be very much to my liking. It's also great to see how the crown might look like: flat and flush to the case. Let's wait and see now. Thank yo...
Cool to see a “work in progress” and I agree with your taste on the final photos you found. A reminder that good things take time. Very much looking forward to the final result. Thanks for sharing this very cool experience! 👍🏻
And was pleasantly surprised to get this answer. I haven’t asked for an extract from the archive though: maybe I will now that you mention it ! Best, Emmanuel
The crystal isn't an issue. Most likely the dauphine hands will not be either. (I hope) The good thing about the refreshing of the dial is that there isn't much printing so Jaeger LeCoultre and swiss or fab. suisse would certainly be printed much better t...
before it was sent for restoration. So, I don’t really know what happened during the refreshing of the dial. Or maybe it’s just an impression we have because the photo is so small and the dial is wrapped into plastic. I have no other explanation for the m...
which shows another example of dial and hands. It’s a model with small seconds (vs. center seconds) and the style is different but it looks very nice. Thanks again. Best, Emmanuel