Jaeger-LeCoultre

Clavi
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Definitively a nice looking watch

This watch has about everything I like in a watch from a aesthetic perspective.

I am a bit disappointed that the movement is the (rather deceptive) cal 849, especially after looking back at the picture of the 1907 cal 145, that demonstrates that ultra-thin-ness is even greater when achieved in large diameters.
With its movement know-how and CAD/CAM skills, I am certain JLC could have fabricated a modern genuinely utrathin movement to complement the great work done on the case, and the 849 is 20 years old (or even 60 years old if you consider its direct predecessor the 803)

Talking of the case, while I find it very nice, I think that using the term 'coin edge' (boite couteau) is wrong on that watch as you can clearly see that there is a (1-2mm high) flat area on the edge of the case.
A true knife edge should be just what it says: shaped as a knife. Your illustration of the watch with the cal 145 is a perfect example of what a knife edge is.
I have one such 'knife edge' PW, and I can open a letter or cut paper with it. I strongly doubt you could do it with this jubile.

Now, on the Jubilee issue, I think I addressed it already but 180 years is 'just' an anniversary, it is certainly not a Jubilee. The last Jubilee was 5 years ago, and the next one is in 20 years !

Having said that, it seems to be a great watch, one that I would certainly like on my wrist.

I just regret that the marketing pushes it a bit too far by pimping it with wrong superlatives, and that the great watch case cannot be made even greater by having an ultrathin movement in line with the promise the case suggests.

On a last note, I am also surprised that the (to me very obvious) visual linkage with the (real) Jubile 125 ref 2233 has not been made in the PR as the MUTJ dial takes a lot of design clues from its ancestor:

Don't you see some ligneage ?

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