Hands-On: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Squelette, A Look Inside One Of The World’s Flattest Watches

Getting a watch to be very thin is an interesting project, because you’re doing your absolute damnedest, and utilizing a great deal of watchmaking skill, to do something to a watch that should never be done to a watch: You’re seeing how much you can compromise it structurally before it becomes fatal. The whole thing is a lot like a carnival knife thrower hurling daggers at his beautiful assistant – it’s a heart-stoppingly terrible idea on one level, but the fact that it is foolhardy is kind of the whole point of the exercise (and it’s what makes it entertaining). Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Ultra Thin Squelette takes the already perverse fascination of ultra-flat watchmaking one step further and skeletonizes an already improbably thin mechanism, leaving behind not so much a watch as the idea of a watch.

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