And the creation of the Duometre a Spherotourbillon is no exception. Jaeger-Lecoultre claims to have created the first tourbillion that can be accurately set. This watch (unlike the Lange and Sohne) allows you to reset the separate seconds hand back to zero without stopping the tourbillon.

Some of you may be wondering what tourbillon watches are. This type of watch was invented in 1795 to correct positional errors cause by gravity that was typical of the pocket watch of that era. The tourbillon movement places the balance wheel and escapement in a rotating cage.

One of the goals Jaeger-Lecoultre had in creating this watch was to produce a compact watch with a maximum number of obstacles, which would still retain high levels of readability. An interesting design; the Spherotourbillon is an intriguing development in tourbillon technology that we anticipate to be very popular and a standard for future models. Combined with Jaeger-Lecoultre`s other success in the improvements made to their Master Control series, all point to the fact that Jaeger-Lecoultre will have a very successful 2012.