Ultra thin watches have lost most of their prestige in the last decades as the quartz era has made us forget the mastery they require!

On the contrary ultra thin watches remain for the calibre amateurs and the real horology fans a real proof of great talent!

Ultra thin watches took a very important place in Jaeger-LeCoultre's history. In fact Jacques-David Le Coultre came to answer Edmond Jaeger's search for ultra thin calibres in 1903. That's ultra thin calibres and LeCoultre's talents in this specialty that initiated the great encounter and the beginning of the 2Oth century's history of JLC! No less!

The record calibre 145 was the first brick, a 1.38mm thick pocket watch calibre created in 1907 and powering some great watches from that time (among them some absolutely fantastic Cartier ultra thin pocket watches).

I won't sum up now the numerous calibres developed then by LeCoultre and later Jaeger-LeCoultre! 

The most recent ultra thin calibre is the well known calibre 849! We'll see it again in the next years.

For your information it was deeply reviewed here: http://www.thepurists.com/watch/features/8ohms/jlchw/index.html

Now let's have a look at the new offerings.

Jaeger-LeCoultre  40mm Master Grande Ultra Thin auto in pink gold

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