If you follow your heart, and search for purpose in life, you will travel to the ends of the earth to see this timepiece. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Extreme Lab 2 innately sparks curiosity among all with beating hearts, you included!!!
The new Master Compressor Extreme LAB 2 is a mechanical Chronograph with GMT function, especially developed for use in the most extreme environments. To test their ambitious project, Jaeger-LeCoultre has sent the Master Compressor Extreme LAB2 Tribute to Geophysic out into the wild with a mountaineering expedition called “Expedition Geophysic” to conquer a virgin peak in the Himalayas, which has been christened the Mount Antoine LeCoultre. This is what I call a “commitment to excellence”. The industrial design on this piece is highly commendable but I must say that per spec, the functionality on this wrister kicks butt of all other attributes on this piece. For example, one of the unique features on this beast is the “function selector” which functions like a manual gear box in a car and presents three functions: watch winding in the first position, adjustment of the GMT-function and the date after pushing once, and time setting after a second push. Giving a third push makes the system return to its first position in which the crown is decoupled from the gear train of the watch and only allows winding the
watch. This system makes pulling the crown superfluous and therefore protects the watch from possible intrusions of dust and dirt for the crown stays in the same position at all times.
By building this beast and putting it to the tests of durability and reliability, JLC is definitely demonstrating the superior mechanical engineering put into this timepiece. True, the stick price is massively high (nearly $250,000), but if you’ve got it…and if you’ve got it, you’ll never need to replace it…
just a little loose tape for ya…
• mechanical automatic movement, Calibre 780, developed and manufactured by Jaeger-LeCoultre
• 60 hour power reserve
• hours, minutes, and small second’s hand functions
• second time zone (with 24 hours counter) adjustable in hour-steps
• chronograph with digital minute display,
• semicircular, radial power reserve indication
• digital jumping minute counter with two discs
• central second’s hand
• two pushbuttons with rubber-covered, L-shaped security arms
• ceramic crown with integrated pushbutton to select three functions via column wheel:
1) winding
2) setting of date and second time zone;
3) setting the time
