The Sound Maker Workshop | Jaeger-LeCoultre

THE SOUND MAKER DISCOVERY WORKSHOP

INTRODUCTION

PAYING TRIBUTE TO 150 YEARS OF CHIMING WATCHES

Over the past 150 years, chiming watches have had a special significance in Jaeger-LeCoultre’s portfolio of complicated timepieces. Since creating its first-minute repeater in 1870, the Manufacture has developed more than 200 chiming watch calibres and has mastered every form, from relatively simple alarms including the well-known Memovox alarm-calibers to the most complex of all - the Grande Sonnerie and Westminster chimes. The Sound Maker pays tribute to the past, present and future of these noble complications, which epitomise Jaeger-LeCoultre’s constant quest to marry technical ingenuity and artistic creativity.

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EXPERIENCE

THE SOUND MAKER DISCOVERY

The Sound Maker pays homage to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s home in the Vallée de Joux and to its great legacy of chiming timepieces, expressing more than 150 years of accumulated chiming expertise in fresh new ways that link nature, art and horology.

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1.FROM TICK-TOCK TO THE MINUTE REPEATER

Together with a professor and a technical expert, you will discover why watches go “tick-tock”, how time can be expressed through sound, what makes a minute repeater chime.

2.LEARN HOW A CHIMING WATCH WORKS

You will also navigate through some of our historic landmark timepieces, as well as the Maison’s contemporary chiming watches. Our experts will reveal some of the secrets of our patented innovations that have improved the quality of sound over time.

3.HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE

To be fully immersed within Jaeger-LeCoultre’s universe, you will be invited to go hands-on, using larger-scale models to try to replicate the work of the Maison’s highly skilled watchmakers.

4.MANUFACTURE VISIT

Our guide will take you from our Design and conception workshop to our Atelier des Grandes Complications to reveal the secrets of our Haute Horlogerie know-how.