Jaeger-LeCoultre Navy SEALs Automatic Watch Review

The watch that I picked is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Navy SEALs Automatic or, as it's officially called, the Master Compressor Diving Automatic Navy SEALs Why? In essence, because the Navy SEALs Automatic is a watch that shares what I consider to be a highly productive and very exciting period in the modern history of the brand It was an era of cool Master Compressors, watches made in actual, real-world collaboration with Aston Martin, the Navy SEALs and explorers, an era of Extreme LABs and high complications that pushed the envelope And, surprise-surprise, an era almost entirely free from any sort of tame, self-aggrandizing, and truly excessive vintage-tribute-iconic-heritage-jubilee-anniversary conformism in copy-paste watch design.

This leads me to the Navy SEALs Automatic, a watch originally launched at SIHH 2010 I wish it was launched somewhere more, ehm, badass than that The story goes that upon testing the prototype watches, the Navy SEALs had two major complaints and feedback about the watch: first, the bezel would fall out too easily and needed to have a much more secure fit In the last number of months that I've had this month, every damn time that I happen to look at how the lugs are designed, I'm reminded of how they were asked to make this non-reflective - and yet someone at Jaeger-LeCoultre was like: "Nah.

We'll make the lugs pretty because that's what we do The Navy-who, anyway?" This puts a smile on my face every time I see these lugs and imagine this conversation going down at JLC - who then produced 1,500 watches with polished lugs, because some penguins or seals or whatever certainly don't have a sniff at what real luxury is! I absolutely adore this subtle flip-off detail in the watch My watch has a small scratch at the 40-minute mark on it, and when hunting for one of these - before TheWatchBoxcom helped me find this one - I've seen plenty of these watches listed with minor scuffs and marks on their ceramic bezels. Source