Recently the prestigious Swiss luxury watchmaking powerhouse, Jaeger LeCoultre has launched an excellent timepiece, the gracious Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox Watch, which is produced basing on its emblematic 1958 version.
Specially targeted at a charismatic contemporary gentleman, bold, adventruous, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox Watch is marked by a rare refinement and sensitivity, masterfully intertwined with exceptional mechanical intricacy.
Powering the glamorous Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox Watch is the brand¡¯s signature faithful in-house Calibre 956, a complicated movement that is completely assembled and ornamented by hand. The excellent movement beats at a frequency of 28,800 alternations with a power reserve capability of 45 hours, ensuring the impeccable accuracy and reliability of the timepiece.
It is encasing in a sleek case measuring at a diameter of 40 mm. Featuring either a silver dial or a trendy black dial on the elegant case, the splendid timepiece comes with clear readability with four indices and three prominent Arabic numeral hour markers placing respectively at the 6, 9 and 12 positions as well as a slim date aperture positioned at 3 o¡¯clock. In addition, the time is displayed by sward-shaped, rhodium or gold-plated elegant hands, meanwhile the watch boasts the 1958 emblematic alarm disc with an arrow, which indicates the alarm time.
The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox Watch is mounted either on a trendy and fashionable black respectively brown alligator leather strap or a pink gold alligator leather strap. The former is available in a limited production of 250 pieces while the latter reaches a total of 750 pieces.

Everyone around me knows that I a big fan of diver watches. This love leads me to discover all kinds of divers from different brands. When it comes to the favorite, my vote goes to the Omega Seamaster 2254 which represents an ultimate elegance for me. And in the past few years, Tag Heuer has greatly raised their design level, which is clearly reflected on their popolar models like The Grand Carrera, the Carrera Day-Date and the new Aquaracer 500m. They are all eye-pleasing. The Aquaracer 500m, in particular, comes pretty impressive design that even reminds me of the 2254. That is why I moved to buy a replica Tag Aquaracer 500m. Well this comes my review of this new purchased rep.

Front:
From the front, it is a bit hard to pick flaws of the replica Tag Heuer.. The magnifier above date mag is pretty good, so as is the date font. The dial looks quite decent with beautiful finishing and hand-applied texture. The texure and numbers of the bezel is really closed to the gen. And I can not complain about the quality of the crown either. The hands and hour markers are correctly copied, though the lume on them is not strong as that on the gen.

Normally, replica Tags just have single anti-reflective coating on their crystals, the gen has double AR coating. However, my tag does no any AR coating, which is an obvious flaw. Luckily, the cystal does not suffer from massive glare anyway, so the AR issue can be ignored.The Tag Heuer logo on the dial is slightly misaligned. But I can accept that as most rep Tags have seriously misaligned logo. Replicas can not be perfect, anyway.

Back:
In recent years, Tag has Turned the open caseback design. It¡¯s a nice touch in my opinion, as an automatic movement is something that deserves exhibition. Everyone is glad to see a nicely finished movement with a branded rotor.The replica does a nice job in copying of the back, with the major flaw being that the movement isn¡¯t finished in the same pearl pattern as the genuine.Another flaw is the rotor bearing. The genuine has a slightly toothed edge, whereas the replica has a smooth edge to it.Apart from these minor differences, the open back is a nice aesthetical touch on the genuine, and the replica does a great job in copying it.

Other
The clasp on the replica feel quite solid, and it certainly closes with authority.There is the ability to make micro adjustments to the length of the bracelet, so you can make the watch fit to exactly how you want it.When I tried the genuine on, the bracelet felt very light, and quite flimsy. The replica feels almost exactly the same. The 500m uses a bracelet that is similar in feel to a Submariner bracelet, rather than an Omega SMP bracelet, which is heavier and slinkier in comparison.

Overall, I am pleased with this replica tag. I will surely give it a great deal of wrist time as I really have fun when I look at it-it is so good looking. It provides accurate time and wears comforable as well.

Like tourbillion and perpetual calendar, minute repeater is a complication of mechanical watches. Simply, a minute repeater is a watch able to tell time. The repeater mechanism can be activated by pushing the button on the end protruding from the side of the clock. Then the tinny hammers activated by the repeater mechanism strike the bells coiled inside the watch case to make the chiming sounds.

This function might be very common in the electronic watches with a standard female voice reading the hour, the minute and the second. However, the minute repeater function is the biggest challenge in the mechanical watch making: placing the repeating spring system in the limited space; sometimes for beautiful chiming sounds, three or more sets of springs and hammers are added; many components are as tiny as hair. Various famous watch producers make time repeaters to prove their outstanding techniques and improve the international status rather than make profit.

A minute repeater can produce three different sounds to distinguish hours, quarter hours, and minutes in the striking sequence. It’s a successful combination of acoustics and dynamics. Since it’s hard to fit three bulky wire gongs into a watch movement, the repeater only uses two gongs and the third sound is made by striking the two gongs rapidly in sequence. The two gongs produce different sounds: one is higher-”bing”; the other is lower-”bong”. Invariably, the lower tone represents the hour; the higher tone represents the quarter hour. And for the minute, the two gongs cooperate to make the sounds: first the lower tone; then the higher tone. The following is an example of how a minute repeater tells the time. If the time is 3:32, the minute repeater will sound 3 low tones representing 3 hours, 2 sequence tones representing 30 minutes, and 2 high tones representing 2 minutes: “bong, bong, bong, bing-bong, bing-bong, bing, bing”. You can imagine the interesting and pleasant melody.

Timbre is the spirit of a minute repeater as well as a decisive factor evaluating the watch quality and the price. For minute repeaters of million dollars, the sounds must be clear, melodious, and deep moving. However, the cheap ones might be a bit thick and turbid.

Time can be listened. When the night is deep, you can hear the flowing time with the ticking of the escapement and enjoy the beautiful chime produced by the magical repeater.