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The 6 steel case JLC Masters with just time or date
In terms of price and dimensions they're a fairly tight bands: prices are £4,900-£6,100 (and mostly in the middle of that), with the five automatics 38.5mm to 41mm, 7.5mm to 8.8mm. The one manual is 6.3mm thick.
The auto movements are clearly all related to each other, ticking at 28,800. The manual is significantly thinner, and ticks at 21,600 (but doesn't have a second hand)
2 two-handers
2 small seconds
2 date with central seconds
1 Master Control Date
39mm x 8.8mm*
899 auto movement
28,800, 3.3mm
Numerals at 12, 6, 9
Date window at 3
Central seconds
£4,900 1548420
Also available in black dial, with black date wheel 1548470
*website ambiguous - might be 8.5mm
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2 Master Ultra Thin (Manual)
38mm x 6.3mm
849 manual movement
21,600, 1.85mm
Numerals at 12, 3, 6, 9
No date
No seconds
£5,450 1348420
Here's a fantastic piece on the cal. 849: LINK
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3 Master Ultra Thin Small Seconds (38.5mm case)
38.5mm x 7.6mm
896 auto movement
28,800, 3.98mm
No numerals
No date
Small seconds at 6
£5,600 1278420
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4 Master Ultra Thin Small Seconds (40mm case)
40mm x 8.6mm
896 auto movement
28,800, 3.98mm
No numerals
No date
Small seconds at 6
£5,700 1358420
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5 Master Ultra Thin Date
40mm x 7.5mm
899 auto movement
28,800, 3.3mm
No numerals
Date window at 6
Central seconds
£5,800 1288420
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6 Master Ultra Thin
41mm x 7.4mm
898C auto movement
28,800, 3.3mm
No numerals
No date
No seconds
£6,100
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By order of price:
Master Control Date £4,900
Master Ultra Thin (Man) £5,450
Master Ultra Thin Small Seconds (38.5mm) £5,600
Master Ultra Thin Small Seconds (40mm) £5,700
Master Ultra Thin Date £5,800
Master Ultra Thin £6,100
By case diameter:
Master Ultra Thin (Manual) 38mm
Master Ultra Thin Small Seconds 38.5mm
Master Control Date 39mm
Master Ultra Thin Small Seconds 40mm
Master Ultra Thin Date 40mm
Master Ultra Thin 41mm
By case thickness:
Master Control Date 8.8mm
Master Ultra Thin Small Seconds (40mm) 8.6mm
Master Ultra Thin Small Seconds (38.5mm) 7.6mm
Master Ultra Thin Date 7.5mm
Master Ultra Thin 7.4mm
Master Ultra Thin (Manual) 6.3mm
There are gold versions of all of these watches with creamy dials instead of the silver sunburst of these, and there's another model which fits the date/time only criteria, but is only available in precious metals: the Master Ultra Thin 1907 which is *seriously* thin. A previous incarnation of that, only 34mm, and just 4.2mm thick *was* made in steel.
Prices are all per the website. Useful comparison: the Small seconds 38.5mm is listed as £5,600. I found a respected but slow GM seller offering it for £3,600.
On the page on the JLC website for the full Master range sometimes the model is shown in gold, sometimes in steel. For some of these you have to select the gold version and then select the steel from the offered variations. Aside from that quirk, a pretty pleasant to use site:
http://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/GB/e...FQjlwgode84NQg
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The Master Ultra Thin Jubilee in platinum made me a bit weak in the knees when I tried it on a few years ago. As much as I've wanted to love all of the models shown above, something about the markers leaves me a little cold in person. I generally prefer applied markers to printed dials, but for some reason, the Jubilee seems to work better.
I think much of it is the texture of the dial. The eggshell finishing (seen in the 1907 picture from JLC's website) adds some much needed warmth to the design.
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I've got to write this:
all the information above wasn't cut and pasted from anywhere. I spent a LONG time collating the information and then presenting it nicely, and then finding some half decent realistic non-stock photos to illustrate it.
I did this because on the JLC website the steel models and the gold models, the plain models and the complications are all muddled together. I thought it would be really nice to put all the information on one particular style in one place, and I was happy to make the effort.
First post under all of it: (a) meh (b) here's something else I like.
Its really very rude and very disspiriting and it happens on every single ****ing thread on this forum. Start a thread, someone comes along veers it off course instantaneously. It does very little to encourage people to start threads.
If this sounds intemperate, its because I'm really upset and I'm fed up, very very fed up.
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Dec 4, 2015, 04:22 PM
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Der Amf
First post under all of it: (a) meh (b) here's something else I like.
Its really very rude...
No.
The following post was complementary to your posts and not rude at all.
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