Tiny Timekeeping: Jaeger-LeCoultre Celebrates the Caliber 101

The neo-vintage trend of the past few years kicked off a race among watch producers to develop new, scaled-down movements to fit the smaller cases dictated by vintage designs It incidentally spawned a surge in the development of new, smaller calibers for ladies’ mechanical watches, and several new movements were introduced at the watch fairs earlier this year For Jaeger-LeCoultre, there has been no need to task its R&D department to compete in the rush for new feats of micro-engineering; the company has been producing the world’s smallest mechanical movement since 1929 when it first introduced the Caliber 101, and the movement is still in production.

Last week, the company introduced two new ladies’ watches containing the famous movement It’s in celebration of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s sponsorship of the Venice International Film Festival and the watches will be unveiled at a special exhibit—also in Venice –called Homo Faber, showcasing products in the . Source