Hi,

I’m a long-time WUS reader, occasional contributor and general mechanical watch obsessive. Having built up a collection of 12 or so watches over the last decade, I realised that many were hardly being worn, as I tend to wear watches for months at a time. This led to the hatching of a cunning plan- sell a bunch of them to fund a knock-out purchase.

Being more of a used/ vintage guy, I got browsing the local dealers to see what might be in the ballpark, and then got struck down by the…

Incoming Neo-Vintage Perfection

Hello to all JLC watch lovers, please tell me whether the JLC manufactory belongs to Haute Horlogerie’s? What is your opinion? I’m asking because on another forum I encountered the answer that it does not, never has and will not belong to Haute Horlogerie’s (The finishing of JLC is not at the level known from high watchmaking – it is about the quality of finishing of hands, mechanisms (manual operations such as englage, black polishing, details of levers, bridges, etc.

). Of course, there…

Jaeger-LeCoultre & Haute Horlogerie’s

Hi all
First post here, hi! I’m in the UK.

I am looking at buying a Polaris Mariner Date. For budget reasons, and the fact it’s discontinued, I am looking at used. I have found a watch from a private seller in Hong Kong and as I am going out there in a couple of weeks anyway I can pay and pick it up in person.

This is my biggest watch purchase and I am paranoid about it being fake. I know that fakes of these are not common but I have seen some oinline. And watched youtube videos about how…

Polaris – ensuring it’s real