Outside the city ring are two concentric fixed rings: a 24-hour indicator with applied numerals and rectangular indexes, and a laser-engraved minute track.
Each time zone represented by the name of a city is arranged in a ring around the central dial. The Master Grande Tradition Calibre 948 is also quite simple to read. Truly an exceptional work of art by the skilled artisans at the Manufacture’s Métiers Rares® atelier. All this as the flying tourbillon appears to float weightlessly above the blue oceans, spinning in 60 seconds in a circular aperture on one side of the map. Given the detailed intricacies of this watch, it truly looks like the world is on my wrist.īeneath the dome is the vivid blue translucent lacquer applied dial bed over a wavy guilloché pattern, recreating the movement of the sea and the lunar influence on its tides. The outline of the various continents is cut from a sheet of white gold and decorated with champlevé enamel with refined miniature-painted details of major landscapes. So not the traditional flattened world map. As tradition has it, at the centre of this world timer is a map of the world that floats above the dial bed on a domed skeleton formed by the longitudes and latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Needless to say, calibre 948 was entirely conceived, developed and produced within the Manufacture.įrom the movement to the dial. To begin with, this is the first time that a world-time complication has been united with a flying tourbillon, with the universal Tourbillon making a complete circuit of the dial every 24 hours – the length of a mean solar day. This year at Watches & Wonders 2022, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Métiers Rares® (Rare Handcrafts™) atelier has added a new artistic interpretation of the Universal Time – the Master Grande Tradition Calibre 948. The meticulously crafted detailed decorations paired with the complexity and beauty of the calibres epitomises the Maisons true spirit of innovation. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Grande Tradition family is without a doubt considered as fine watchmaking at its very best.
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