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FRANCAIS| Logo | Fondateurs | Année de fondation | Lieu de création | Site Web |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Antoine LeCoultre | 1833 | Le Sentier / Suisse | www.jaeger-lecoultre.com |
Serving as official sponsor of the Venice International Film Festival since 2005, Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre shares with the “Serenissima” a deep-felt attachment to a legacy in which art plays the leading role. Both are endowed with the ability to awaken powerful emotions, and the City of the Doges and the Grande Maison get together each year to celebrate cinema and culture, history and time. From September 1st to 11th 2010, Jaeger-LeCoultre is staging the debut of four exceptional creations featuring magical craftsmanship that evokes the fairytale charm of Venice.
Each watch in its own particular way engages in a dialogue with time and celebrates humankind’s passionate encounter with art.
Behind every creation lies the human hand, without which there would be no passion. It alone is capable of blending intuition and know-how, awareness and enchantment. It alone is able to master the technical or aesthetic details that will transform an object into a unique masterpiece. This extreme concern for details has pervaded the Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre since 1833, inspiring its craftsmen and masterwatchmakers to mingle time-honoured techniques with the latest technological breakthroughs in devising the finest timepieces. Those presented in Venice highlight the virtuosity of artistic crafts, weaving indestructible ties between the past and a visionary spirit. Four creations and as many personalities that count off time and recount the story of Venice, the city of art par excellence, muse of the greatest artist and cradle of the most beautiful love stories.
Montre Extraordinaire La Rose
A rose sculpted in white gold blossoms in the glow of the gemstones outlining its corolla. Transposing nature into a precious gift, Jaeger-LeCoultre has imagined a “secret” watch in the tradition of its jewellery sets and Montres Extraordinaires. Diamonds and pink sapphires distil their radiance like vibrant declarations of love. The exquisitely romantic flower conceals beneath one petal a full-set dial over which the hour and minute hands sweep to the rhythm of a hand-wound in house-made movement, Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 846. This 18-carat Haute Joaillerie model shaped by the expert hands of genuine artists celebrates the union of beauty and precision governed by the most complex of all gem-setting techniques: snow setting. Invented by Jaeger-LeCoultre, this subtle art calls upon the full measure of the jewellery craftsman’s expertise in order to achieve the peerlessly voluptuous frosted effect. Magical and even hypnotic, the Montre Extraordinaire La Rose enfolds the wrist in the soft embrace of a blue-tinged black strap, and is also adorned with ostrich feathers that gently caress the skin.
