Ultra-thin, give or take
By Julien Moreau, Geneva ยท
9.9 mm is not ultra-thin. Jaeger-LeCoultre makes some of the thinnest movements in Switzerland, and it seems a pity to borrow the vocabulary for one that is merely slim. That is my only real objection, and it is a pedant's objection.
Otherwise it is a lovely thing: 39 mm of steel, a silver dial with the moon phase and a pointer date sharing the sub-dial at six, the calibre 925 behind an open back with 70 hours of reserve, 50 m of water resistance. At eleven to twelve thousand dollars it is a fraction of what Patek charges for a moon, and to my eye just as pretty. For the man who wants one complication and wants it to be the romantic one.