Jaeger LeCoultre Extreme World Time Alarm Automatic Watch

Jaeger LeCoultre Extreme World Time Alarm

Description:

It doesn’t get more Extreme than this. An all original Jaeger LeCoultre Extreme World Time Alarm with Box and Papers. The watch is fitted with the original used JLC Alligator Leather strap and stainless steel JLC buckle. The watch has slight scratches that come from normal use.

At 46.5mm in stainless steel and titanium, this Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Extreme World Alarm is one of the largest sports watches the Le Sentier watchmaker has ever issued. As a bigger, tougher, and more complicated evolution of the 2000s “Master Compressor” series, the Compressor Extremes upped the ante in every way.

“Extreme” stands for extreme toughness. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Extreme World Alarm features a two-part case comprised of a titanium inner cradle and a stainless steel exterior chassis. Jaeger-LeCoultre designed the outer structure to provide a suspension buffer for the inner chamber which is suspended on springs. In combination, these elements allow the Master Compressor Extreme case to endure instantaneous impulses of up to 500g.

Want more? You’ve got it; Jaeger-LeCoultre uses the additional volume of the Compressor Extreme case to install lever actuated quick releases for the straps. Pull the tab and remove the strap. Pull the tab and install the new one… yes, it’s that easy.

Complication rules the day when you own this bi-metallic bruiser. Each Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Extreme World Alarm incorporates an alarm that can be set with a double-digital adjustment mechanism and even switched off for occasions when the system’s intrusion is unwanted.

A world-time reference system provides simultaneous display of the hour in each of the globe’s 24 principal time zones. Each of the features time zones is represented by a prominent reference city.

Its Jaeger-LeCoultre-patented Compressor Crown technology enables both instant access to the crown functions and 100-meter (330-foot) water resistance. One half-twist of each wing-lock fully enables each crown, and the same minimal effort provides a tight seal. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s effortless system is both stylish and infinitely easier to use than the stubborn screw-down units of traditional dive watches.

Inside the fortress-like Compressor Extreme case, Jaeger-LeCoultre mounts its formidable caliber 912. An in-house movement like all JLC alarms, the caliber 912 is a hot-rodded version of the venerable automatic Memovox Cal. 918.

The upgrades start with a world-time function and continue with an alarm on/off switch, a titanium alarm gong, a rugged free-sprung escapement, a laser-welded hairspring (at both points of attachment), high-efficiency un-lubricated ceramic winding-rotor bearings, and the mechanically superior unidirectional winding mechanism of the latest Jaeger-LeCoultre automatic movements.