Jaeger-LeCoultre
The Jaeger-LeCoultre manufacture has a long and tumultuous history. In 1833, Antoine LeCoultre opened his own workshop for the production of gear wheels. Having made his fortune, he then did what many other artisans did: In 1866, he had a large house built and brought together all the craftspeople needed to produce timepieces, from the watchmakers to the turners and polishers. He outfitted the workshop with the most modern machinery of the day, all powered by a steam engine. “La Grande Maison” was the first watch manufacture in the Vallée de Joux.
At the start of the twentieth century, the grandson of the company founder, Jacques-David LeCoultre, built slender, complicated watches for the Paris manufacturer Edmond Jaeger. The Frenchman was so impressed with these that, after a few years of fruitful cooperation, he engineered a merger of the two companies.
Chronostore is not an authorized dealer for or affiliated with BAUME & MERCIER, CARTIER, IWC, JAEGER-LECOULTRE, LANGE & SÖHNE, MONTBLANC, OFFICINE PANERAI, PIAGET, ROGER DUBUIS, VACHERON CONSTANTIN and VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, and the watches it sells are not new watches purchased directly from these manufacturers. The watches are, however, to the best of our knowledge, unworn. The manufacturer’s warranty will not be honored by these companies on the watches sold by Chronostore
