JeanRichard DIVERSCOPE LPR

By TLex JeanRichard release a new version of their DIVERSCOPE with an innovative method for indicating power-reserve . . .

From JR After the initial titanium versions, this is the first model in the line to be presented with its distinctive cushion-shaped case made from polished and satin-finished stainless steel.



The solid caseback is secured by four screws which, together with the screw-lock crowns at 9 and 3 o'clock – respectively controlling the hour&date and the internal bidirectional rotating bezel – guarantee water resistance to the respectable depth of 1,000 feet (300 metres).

This robust and reliable sporty model is powered by a 26-jewel automatic JR 1010 movement, based on the in-house made JR 1000 movement launched in 2004 and successively enriched since then with nine different evolutions. It features a balance oscillating at a frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour and ensuring a 48-hour power reserve.

CLARITY & ORIGINALITY The extremely readable opaline black dial features a date display at 7.30, black & white hour and minute hands filled with a luminescent substance, along with luminescent-rimmed hour-markers and Arabic numerals. Among the latter, the number 12 stands in a particular way, since it empties and fills to provide a highly original linear power-reserve indication from which the model draws its 'LPR' code name.

Like many successful designs, the technique behind this distinctive aesthetic and technical feature is surprisingly simple: a plate covered with a luminescent substance is linked to a cam via a conveyor support and a connecting rod, and this plate rises successively as the movement is wound and the numerals become white – meaning the power reserve is full. Much like a petrol gauge, this linear power-reserve then vividly displays the gradual depletion of the energy supply.

Delivered with two straps – one in rubber and the other in a Kevlar® fabric – fastened by a satin-finished folding steel clasp with a double push-button security system, this is a watch clearly built for action and ready to accompany sports enthusiasts in their accomplishments both underwater and on dry land.

CASE

Polished and satin-finished stainless steel case

Dimensions: 43 x 43 mm

Height: 13.40 mm

Antireflective sapphire crystal

Case-back secured with 4 screws

Water-resistant to 300 m

Two screw-down crowns

Internal bidirectional rotating bezel

MOVEMENT

JEANRICHARD movement JR1010

Self-winding

Calibre: 11 ½’’’

Frequency: 28,800 vibrations/hour (4 Hz)

Jewels: 26

Power reserve: minimum 48 hours

Functions: hour, minute, second, linear power reserve indicator, date

DIAL

Opalin black dial

Emptied Arabic numerals at 12 o’clock

Luminescent Arabic numerals and indexes

Black and white hands with luminescent material

STRAP

Delivered with two straps: black fabric and black rubber

Satin-finished stainless steel folding buckle

Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea Vintage CHRONO

By TLex The Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea Vintage Chronograph is a tribute to a legendary dive watch, the Memovox Deep Sea, the first mechanical dive watch to be fitted with an alarm in watchmaking history; it's mechanism was used to remind divers when it was time to return to the surface. This historical diver was fitted with a LeCoultre 815 automatic calibre. It was lovingly reproduced by JLC in 2011 as the Memovox Tribute to Deep Sea.

The new Deep Sea Vintage Chrono, which will be officially unveiled at SIHH 2012 next week follows in the same vein, taking its vintage design cues such as a simple black fixed bezel (there were no dive watch standards in the 50s that called rotational bezels), a classic black dial and authentic Plexiglass crystal right of the pages of JLC's history books. Notice, too the hands and hour-markers, which have been applied with a warm orange-tinted Superluminova reminiscent of the lume used by the 1959 Memovox Deep Sea.

The watch is powered by the latest 37 jewel Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 751G with 65hrs of power-reserve. It is housed in a 40.5mm stainless steel watch case. We can't see it here, but the caseback bears the same engraving depicting a frogman surrounded by bubbles as the original Deep Sea. The watch is finished with an embossed black tropic-style calfskin leather strap so as to replicate the exact look of the straps that the historical Deep Sea models were fitted with.

This is a watch that is no doubt aimed at the connoisseur rather than diving professional, it's water-resistance is just 100 meters, but its design faithfully follows in the footsteps of its Deep Sea lineage and it evokes a certain amount of nostalgia for the days when divers were more than just divers they were pioneers of the deep; JLC delivers another fitting tribute!