The beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre dating series shooting star watch

Seen a shooting star tonight

And I thought of you

You're tryin' to break into another world

A world I never knew

I always kinda wondered

If you ever made it through

Seen a shootin' star tonight

And I thought of you

“Shooting Star” - Bob Dylan

In my impression, putting astronomy into timepiece tools is the unremitting pursuit of every generation of ingenious watchmakers. Day and night display, moon phases and tides, solar time and time equations, zodiac signs in the starry sky, leap month perpetual calendar, and even more complex ones such as Athens' astronomical trilogy, Van Cleef & Arpels' midnight planetarium, etc., can show the relative positions of solar system stars, presented on the dial. But in my knowledge, no one has been able to accurately and completely interpret the meteor until the appearance of the Jaeger-LeCoultre dating shooting star watch this year.

All mechanical timepiece tools, no matter what kind of astronomical phenomenon they deduce, have rules to follow, because the celestial bodies run regularly according to their orbits. Even if there is a leap year that occurs once every four years, there are usually multiple linkage wheels in terms of mechanical structure. The phase of the moon has a cycle of 29.5 days, and the time equation deduces the one-year cycle of the sun. But what about meteors?

The reason why the shooting star has a mysterious, lucky and beautiful symbol is because it is an accidental event and there is no rule to follow. How to deduce disorder in the orderly structure of the watch? Jaeger-LeCoultre engineers and master watchmakers, following the successful interpretation of the 185 Grande Complication Four Sides Flip Celestial Watch last year, this year, they challenged the unexpected spectacle of meteors and dedicated them to women. The four shooting star watches of the dating series present the beauty of this accidental moment on the exquisite dial.

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Dating Series Shooting Star Jewelry Watch

Have you been touched by the shooting star that crossed this moment?

The main reason why this watch is particularly shining is the diamond inlay process. The 36 diamonds on the outermost ring of the bezel are all prong-inlaid. Yes, it is the setting method commonly used in diamond rings. This setting method is equivalent to holding up the diamond, allowing it to present more light-refracting surfaces. At the same time, the rose gold crown, lugs, inner ring of the bezel and inner ring of the dial are all set with diamonds. Make this watch dazzling enough. If that's not enough, she also has an upgraded version of the strap fully set with diamonds, which is what it looks like.

The dial is made of aventurine material, which will fully render the atmosphere of the starry sky, always waiting for the moment of chance encounter with a meteor. At the same time, the golden flower numeral hour markers and flower-shaped hands subtly add to the femininity and femininity of this women's watch.

Next, let’s talk about the complex mechanism of this meteor flash. I try to explain in the shortest possible language.

The dial of this watch is a three-layer structure, and the middle layer with a hollowed-out shooting star pattern will rotate. The hollowed-out shooting star pattern is usually hidden under the semi-arc shape of the upper dial. What drives the middle dial to rotate is a separate kinetic energy conversion mechanism. You can understand that it is similar to a separate mainspring barrel. When your inadvertent wrist movement fills her up, it turns a meteor to release this part of the energy.

In fact, there is a simpler way to display meteors. If the middle meteor disk is designed in the form of a self-winding oscillating weight, meteors can be easily summoned. But in doing so, meteors will appear more often, and the moment will not be so precious. So Jaeger-LeCoultre gave up this simple approach, and designed a driving mechanism for Meteor, and this amount of driving is closely related to your inadvertent movements, showing a sense of chance, which is completely advanced.

This shooting star will flash across your dial 4 to 6 times per hour. You definitely won’t be staring at the dial and waiting for shooting stars, so when your eyes fall on the dial and the shooting stars appear at this time, it must be a very beautiful moment.

Of course, you have the final say on your watch. If you just like to watch meteors, you don’t have to keep moving your arms while staring at the dial, it will be too tiring. You can turn the crown a certain number of times to summon a meteor. Most people don't know.

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Dating Series Shooting Star Watch

If the first two are graceful and beautiful, these two become elegant and refined little fairies in my eyes.

These two rose gold or white gold meteor watch works, although the word jewelry is missing, there are still two circles of brilliant diamonds around the bezel and dial. Although the prong-set diamonds on the outer ring are missing, the manual micro-painting process added to the dial presents the moon, stars and clouds of the night sky delicately on the sapphire crystal glass on the top layer of the three-layer dial, superimposed with the other two layers of dials. , so that the whole wonderful night sky presents a three-dimensional and profound visual effect.

The two dating meteor watches are equipped with the brand-new 734 self-winding movement independently developed by Jaeger-LeCoultre, which is also a three-dimensional design of a three-layer dial, so the mechanical principle of the meteor’s appearance is the same as that of the previous jewelry watch. The wonderful dial micro-painting process comes from the hand of the master craftsman of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Métiers Rares® Rare Craft Workshop. When the meteor does not appear, the hollowed meteor is hidden behind the clouds in the night sky and will not be seen by you.

Imagine that you know that there is a shooting star hidden behind the clouds on the dial, and only that accidental moment meets you unexpectedly. What a wonderful thing. Just like a woman, your light may be covered up by work, family and life, but in your life, there will always be a few wonderful moments that can show your style and make you shine, you are that shooting star, beautiful for life.