Jaeger-LeCoultre Hosts WatchTime and Friends At Miami Design District Boutique
Around 30 WatchTime readers in the Miami area, plus their spouses or significant others, were the guests of Jaeger-LeCoultre North America at the company's boutique in Miami's bustling Design District on May 14. Jaeger invited the group for a special presentation of new Jaeger-LeCoultre models unveiled at the SIHH salon in Geneva in January.Watch aficionados gather for the event at Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Miami Design District boutiquePhilippe Bonay, president of Jaeger-LeCoultre North America, flew to Miami to host the evening. As WatchTime's editor-in-chief, I was also on hand. Philippe and I both gave short welcoming remarks. I introduced him, recapping his 17-year career in the watch industry, 16 of them spent in the United States. Philippe said a few words about the new 1,000-square-foot boutique, which opened March 6, and a few more about the brand. He stressed Jaeger-LeCoultre's long and distinguished history, having been founded in Switzerland's historic Vall��e de Joux in 1833

Omega Watches Will Be "Officially Certified" By New Swiss METAS Certification, COSC Abandoned
Today, Omega has announced some very exciting news in regard to how it will certify the performance and accuracy of their timepieces with in-house produced movements. In short, Swiss Omega watches will abandon COSC Chronometer certification in favor of a new and more comprehensive certification by the Swiss government controlled METAS agency. One major reason for this is that moving forward more and more Omega watches will contain the company's Master Co-Axial technology which includes both a unique type of escapement as well as anti-magnetic properties. According to parent company the Swatch Group, Omega is about to offer what possibly is the most comprehensive and extensive way of certifying a mechanical watch. Let's see what?all this means in practice.Watches, and especially higher-end ones are sometimes sold with certain certificate issued by third parties �C the most common being the COSC chronometer certificate (Rolex is COSC's biggest customer).? COSC Chronometer certification is

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Would love to see an all gold Datejust at Basel
I don't really need the day portion of the day date (i don't love the look and find it unnecessary), but would love an all gold datejust, as it just looks cleaner to me. The cost being lower would be an additional benefit. So my Basel wish is to have something like the watch below, in 40mm. Why hasn't this been carried forward?(watch pictured is not mine!)

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