190+ YEARS

In 1833, Antoine LeCoultre established his first watchmaking workshop in the Vallée de Joux. Soon after its founding, Jaeger-LeCoultre became the first official watch Manufacture bringing all of the watchmaking crafts together under one roof. Excellence in quality was the central value on which Antoine LeCoultre established his atelier to produce pinions, his inventions radically transformed watchmaking by enabling miniaturisation and series production, laying the foundations of the modern watchmaking industry. To achieve the utmost quality, Antoine LeCoultre invented specialized tools to create, manufacture and measure pinions and other watch components to a degree of accuracy unprecedented at the time. 

From the mid-19th century, Antoine LeCoultre infused the manufacture with a true spirit of invention. Beyond his creations that revolutionized production, he introduced ingenious horological innovations. Since its founding, Jaeger-LeCoultre has been challenging the status quo and mastering all of the ideas that come from the imagination of its designers, engineers and watchmakers. This creativity has always been combined with an idea of excellence, a deep-seated determination to leave nothing to chance, to sacrifice nothing for the sake of convenience: neither design nor technique; neither quality nor creativity. La Grande Maison’s sole objective is to achieve perfection in both form and function.