INTRODUCING: The new Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Memovox and Memovox Timer
Jaeger-LeCoultre must be strong proponents of the adage “you can never have too much of a good thing”. Why? Well, it’s not even been two months since the Le Sentier outfit unveiled their excellent 2020 novelties at this year’s digital Watches & Wonders, and already they’re dropping two new models that are sure to have us watch enthusiasts … chiming. That’s right, JLC has bestowed us with not one, but two new iterations of the Memovox; the Master Control Memovox and Master Control Memovox Timer. These new timepieces carry on a complication that JLC themselves lament is, often times, too easily forgotten. We are, of course, talking about the alarm complication. Seldom seen today but still a mightily helpful feature, the first Memovox that JLC created dates back to the late 1940s. These two new interpretations represent the brand’s desire to revive the popularity of this useful complication, and they appear to have done so with aplomb. Borrowing stylistic cues from both vintage JLCs of the 1950s, as well as the overarching design languages of the current Master Control family, both of these Memovox models are going to appeal to a very broad range of enthusiasts. The stainless steel cases of…
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If you are the kind of person that thinks the watch media should “stay in [their] lane” when it comes to commenting on anything but the latest watch releases, then it’s best you scroll on to the next story. This one, like many recent posts by brands and individuals in the industry, is about this week in the world and not just this week in watches. I respect that Time+Tide is a refuge from reality for some and I am not offended if you prefer to leave it that way. Ultimately though, this is a message of hope and optimism. And lastly, of pride, to be in the watch industry at this time when it is bravely pivoting to be a voice for change, regardless of the cost. “Each time a [person] stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Robert Kennedy This week we are blacking out the Friday Wind Down as a…
“Consumers have demonstrated an appetite to shift away from traditional ownership to newer ways in which to access product.” That was the intro of the “End of Ownership” chapter in “The State of Fashion 2019”, a detailed report by the Business of Fashion and global management consultants McKinsey. The chapter outlined one of the big trends predicted to change the way we shop. “More consumers will see a growing proportion of their wardrobes made up of pre-owned or rented products, especially for high-value items and accessories,” it said. Describing how the prices of top-end watches and jewellery have nearly doubled since 2005, the report suggested that some disruption to the traditional model was inevitable: “Even consumers with six-figure incomes are looking to discounts and alternative models of acquisition for relief.” Given this purported shake-up – that you’d expect to only be aggravated by the financial stress of COVID-19 – a clutch of luxury watch rental services have popped up around the world. These include Vyrent in the US, Borrowed Time in the UK, Luxothèque in France and Acquired Time in Singapore and Hong Kong. News of the existence of Helvetia, an Australian service renting out high-end watches therefore shouldn’t come as a…
