From 2 to 12 September 2009, the famous Swiss Haute Horlogerie brand JAEGER-LECOULTRE was playing a starring role in the 66th Venice International Film Festival, the MOSTRA. Marking its 176 years of horological mastery, the Manufacture was introducing the trilogy of astounding masterpieces: HYBRIS MECHANICA 55. The collections set of greatest timekeeping consists of the Hybris Mechanica à Grande Sonnerie, the Hybris Mechanica Gyrotourbillon, and the Hybris Mechanica à Triptyque, with an amazing total of 55 complications.
In horology, the term COMPLICATIONS refers to any features beyond the simple display of hours, minutes and seconds in a timepiece. However, common additions besides the simple movement (hours, minutes, and seconds) such as day/date displays, chronographs, and automatic winding mechanism do not itself count as a complication; nor a watch with simply a Certified Chronometer watch movement installed.
The more complications in a watch, the more difficult it is to design, create, assemble, and repair. A typical date-display chronograph may have up to 250 parts, while a particularly complex watch may have a thousand or more parts. Watches with several complications are referred to as grandes complications.
How about the newest collections of Jaeger-LeCoultre, first introduced during an exceptional evening event held on September 8th, 2009?
The Jaeger LeCoultre a Grande Sonnerie Watch - 26 complications
The latest invention HYBRIS MECHANICA À GRANDE SONNERIE is an exceptional Grand Complication epitomizing the achievement of the most complex and demanding form of horology.
The Grande Sonnerie mechanism far surpasses the complexity of any other mechanical watchmaking complication. It incorporates over 1300 components, 200 repeater calibers, a perpetual calendar, a flying tourbillon and continuous research in the field of sound to create an exceptional movement with full (four) Westminster Chimes – the longest melody a Grande Sonnerie has ever chimed, powered by a maximum of a 12-hour power reserve. Five years of development has made the Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 182 one of the most advanced – and most complex – movements of Grande Complication ever created for a wrist watch.
details of the Jaeger LeCoultre a Grande Sonnerie Complication Timepiece: Real Calibre and Retrograde Perpetual calendar
details of the Jaeger LeCoultre a Grande Sonnerie Complication Timepiece: the longest Westminster Carillon and the flying Tourbillon
With dazzling piece of horological craftsmanship, THE JAEGER-LECOULTRE HYBRIS MECHANICA À GRANDE SONNERIE contains 26 complications; those are:
- Westminster Carillon
- four-crystal-gongs
- Grande Sonnerie
- Petite Sonnerie
- Silence
- Minute Repeater
- Flying Tourbillon
- Flying Tourbillon
- Perpetual and Instant Calendar
- Perpetual and Instant Calendar
- Days
- Retrograde days
- Months
- Retrograde Months
- Date
- Retrograde Date
- Jumping Hour and Minutes
- Regulation device with inertia-blocks
- Strike power reserve indicator
- Watch power reserve indicator
- Secured incremental hours setting
- Secured incremental minutes setting forward and backward
- Secured incremental minutes setting forward and backward
- Striking mode selector
- Instant minute repeater activation
- Automatic mode’s switch
details of the Jaeger LeCoultre a Grande Sonnerie Watch’s dial
sideview of the Jaeger LeCoultre a Grande Sonnerie Complication Timepiece
Jaeger-LeCoultre a Grande Sonnerie Complication Watch
The launching event of the the Hybris Mechanica à Grande Sonnerie was held at Cipriani Hotel on Tuesday, 8 September 2009. Among the celebrities who attended the party were Catherine Deneuve, Giovanna Mezzogiornio, Riccardo Scamarcio, Joaquim de Almeida, Huang Lu, Indian actor Abhay Deol, professional polo player Eduardo Novillo Astrada and Aston Martin Jaeger-LeCoultre Car Racing driver Darren Turner. CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre, Jérôme Lambert also made a specific welcome to Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson who was supporting charity “Children in crisis”.
Trilogy part II: THE JAEGER-LECOULTRE HYBRIS MECHANICA GYROTOURBILLON
The Jaeger LeCoultre Hybris Mechanica Gyrotourbillon Watch
First shown in 2004, this watch anticipates the struggling to create a precise timekeeper. TOURBILLON– a constantly rotating cage that carries the escapement and eliminates the errors of rate in the vertical position of a watch – provide the constant precision in a mechanical watch. But Unlike the conventional two dimensional tourbillon on the original pocket watch, the JAEGER-LECOULTRE GYROTOURBILLON I includes a tourbillon with two cages that rotate around two axes, balancing the influx of gravity in all three dimensions.
The Jaeger LeCoultre Hybris Mechanica Gyrotourbillon features:
- a skeletonized white gold and titanium dial
- perpetual calendar with four retrograde hands
- an equation of time with new sun-design that can be adjusted by the watchmaker to any of the place on earth.
- Two winding barrels made of transparent sapphire
- Eight days of power reserve
Trilogy part III: THE JAEGER-LECOULTRE HYBRIS MECHANICA À TRIPTYQUE
The Jaeger LeCoultre Hybris Mechanica à Triptyque
It is the first timepiece that shows its information in three separate displays including the base of the case as well as the most complicated watch ever created in swivel-case of the Reverso.
Placed within Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 175, The Jaeger LeCoultre Hybris Mechanica à Triptyque contains 19 complications. Among other things are:
- civil time
- sidereal time
- zodiacal calendar
- a sky chart
- equation of time with sunrise and sunset times, adjustable by the watchmakers to any place in the world
- perpetual calendar with retrograde date
- moon phase
- a tourbillon equipped with the new ellipse isometer escapement outfitted with a specially developed platinum-iridium balance.
The manufacture has spent over six years to complete the research and development of this exceptional timepiece which features yellow gold plated inlays on the dial.
About Jaeger-LeCoultre
The story began 176 years ago when a brilliant inventor and self-taught watchmaker, Antoine-LeCoultre founded his first workshop, following the invention of a machine to produce the watchmaking pinions. In 1903, the Parisian Edmond Jaeger met Jacques-David LeCoultre, the founder’s grandson in a challenging task of producing the ultra-thin calibres. Their cooperation and friendship gave rise to a range of horological wonders and then to a birth of the Jaeger-LeCoultre brand in 1937.
Today, the Manufacture has been has been making the exceptional watch of above and beyond precision, crafted by the most skilled artisan, and offering unique mechanism. Jaeger-LeCoultre collections have been the choice of celebrities and famous moto gp and formula one athletes like Valentino Rossi and Jenson Button.
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