The one I'd give my nephew
By Julien Moreau, Geneva ยท
If I had to give a single watch to a nephew who has just started at a private bank, this would be it, and he would not thank me for a good ten years.
The Master Control line dates from 1992, named after the thousand-hour testing regime Jaeger-LeCoultre was rather proud of at the time. The 2022 version is the best it has been: 40 mm, 8.78 mm thick, the calibre 899 with 70 hours behind an open back, a silver dial with a date, 50 m of water resistance. It sits flat, it slides under a cuff, and it looks right with a suit or a jumper.
Criticisms are small. The name sounds like something from a television remote, and the date window would be better gone. At seventy-eight hundred to eighty-five hundred dollars it embarrasses a good deal of the competition, the Omega Constellation included. It will never impress anyone in a bar. That is the point, mon cher neveu.