Thank you for this sneak peak! Absolutely stunning watch. The dimensions are shocking considering the complications included. Out of my budget but I would love to see one in person. Personally I think the gold one matches very well with the blue dial
Amazing! A Polaris Dive Watch Perpetual Calendar. I have the Polaris Memovox Alarm, and it definitely wears bigger than 42mm. I would imagine, this would have an even bigger wrist presence.
I saw this watch in person a week ago at a JLC boutique. It is stunning. Perpetual calendars rarely have water resistance beyond 50m or even 30m. Both of which are barely suitable for light splashes from hand washing for example. For this watch to be 100m, makes it the perfect everyday watch.
Beautiful - I always think a perpetual calendar sports watch makes sense as it can be worn everyday, whereas perpetual dress watches either need constant resetting or to be kept wound. Obviously, to wear an incorrect perpetual is a crime against horology! I'll look forward to seeing these in the metal - 42mm gives me some concern, although I appreciate it enables clearer reading of the sub-registers.
What doesn't make sense is that it is only water-resistant to 10 ATM. This is more than enough for a sports watch, allowing for swimming/snorkelling, but not for diving....which would be fine if it didn't mean that the dive bezel and dedicated crown are totally redundant.
Thanks Alex for the wonderful review. I've ordered the steel model of this amzing timepiece after watching your video and it will be delivered in four months. The other watch I had bought after watching your review is the Breguet Marine musical alarm 5547 in white gold version. You are right, it's the lifetime investment which is good enough to pass to the next generation. Great job, Alex.
Thanks for your kind feedback! I love your comment! Buying a watch should always be seen as a longterm investment… and this is not always the case today since more and more see watches only as a financial investment. A mechanical wristwatch though is a piece of art that mirrors all the knowledge that was transferred from one generation of watchmakers to the next… Enjoy your ticking beauties and I wish you that they will always display happy seconds, minutes and hours…
Gorgeous! Is this all JLC are releasing/announcing in terms of "normal retail" watches at watches and wonder? Their high-mech watches are superb but nobody buys them. Would be quite disappointing if they do just announce one new reference.
Beautiful watch. I only hope they improved their QC, because i have Polaris Chronograph and after only 2 years i hade to send it to the JLC in Switzerland for a repair. Cal 751H is flawed and they know that in JLC. Pinion and fork pallet positioned under the rotor have a tendency to brake, or better to say teeth of the pinion and tips of the pallet grind incredibly fast. This is (for a 12 500 EUR watch) unacceptable.
From what I understand it is water resistant to 10 ATM. That is ok for swimming, but not for diving.... Lovely watch, somewhat useless dive bezel and dedicated crown.
@@WatchAdvisor Likely, nobody. But why make a perpetual calendar with a dive bezel, and dedicated dive bezel crown, if it cannot ever be used as such???? It is an incongruous design concept.
@@WatchAdvisor at the price I shall have to wait a few years for a second hand one, but just pleased to see a modern JLC that one can lust after ! I find myself stuck in the old master compressor days.
Well the purpose of having a full year indication has no medical background... the purpose is to show the entire calendar... date, day, month, year, leap year...
Have JLC got any more accessible new pieces out? This perpetual calendar and the ultra-high end pieces are obviously really nice, but I’d like to see something under 10k for us poors.
@@MrPanz3r watches are a pretty good investment actually. Steel sports rolex models, any patek sports model, any royal oak, hell even the stupid "limited edition" speedmasters have seen massive gains that you would have a nearly impossible time trying to get in traditional stocks or other assets. I remember 2-3 years ago steel daytonas were going for around $16-18k on the secondary market and people thought that was insane....now you're not finding one under $45k. IDK what you consider an investment but that sure as hell seems like a good one to me. You could find a 4500v overseas in the low 20's not long ago. $65k is the average now. That is a 300% gain in a year or 2. You'd be hard pressed to get that lucky in crypto. Rich people are absolutely treating watches as an investment.
@@Dylan-xj8tb all true but that can’t be the lodestar for every watch purchase. You end up with a soulless collection that represents what the market loves, but not necessarily what you love. I’ve been fortunate to have picked a few winners in terms of watch “investments” so now I’m enjoying splurging on a few pieces that represent truly ingenious watchmaking, residuals be damned. I think JLC is a great place to go for such pieces, especially if you will hold the pieces for a while.
@Daniel Lien thank you. I asked because the way the perpetual calendar is displayed is very much like the IWC. Good that the watchmakers watchmaker does not itself have a watchmaker
I heard that if you a accidentally advance the year number beyond the current year, you’re in a world of hurt. It needs to be sent back to JLC to readjust back to the present calendar year. Very pricy mistake!
I don’t have these weights … Filmed the watch at the HQ where I couldn’t weigh them… when filming in our studio I always provide this information… Sorry! JLC will not provide me the information… Why? I don’t know 🤷🏼♂️
JLC makes its own Kurt Klaus perpetual module now. They license it as far as I know. Hence the IWC uses the crown to adjust the perpetual calendar but JLC uses a pusher on the side.
OMG just noticed that the day and date change over at 3am (not midnight), see 2:40-2:50. I am not sure if this is an anomaly for this particular piece, but if not and it is what to expect from this movement, then I am sorry but it is unacceptable for a USD30,000 watch.
If you mean the Portugieser Perpetual, that watch is 15mm thick with 30 meters of water resistance. The Big Pilot Perpetual is even thicker at 16mm. This watch is 11.9mm thick with 100 meters of water resistance. Aside from power reserve, this watch beats IWC handily.
I agree they should have followed Rolex by releasing an upside down version or perhaps paint the dial some grotesque color, possibly glueing precious jewels to the bezel. That would really push the limits of horology.
@@sanghoonlee5171 Yes, of course. JLC's base movement is thinner. I just don't like the slab-sided case design of the Polaris. The JLC ultra-thin perpetual calendar is a better timepiece. I'm not hating on anything, the Polaris perpetual calendar felt uninteresting and I'm only expressing my opinion on the release. :)
@@69opsman Ha ha, I get you. But Rolex is not just about Horology, Rolex comes with status and their designs stay the same, timeless and classic which can be boring to a ton of people. This is why I hate and love Rolex for what they do. I was more into the recent Tudor and Omega releases, and GS Kodo was a stunner, an unexpected release this year. I also loved the new releases of the JLC Atmos clocks. :D
