Jacot Gents Lafayette Automatic Multi-Function Brown Leather

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Comparative Retail Ticket Price: $1600 to $1795

Elegance refined, this prestige piece from Jacot features not only a stainless steel case with a mirror-like polish but also a stitched Remborde style leather strap that's built to last through years of wear. Inside the smooth case, a visible balance window gently ticks with each passing second while the current date is measured through a subsidiary dial to the northeast. Alongside the date, a day/night window specifically designed for the Jacot collection keeps you informed of the AM or PM hours. Turning this graceful timepiece over, you spy an exhibition window that convexes out from the slim case with an exquisite Cotes de Geneve finish on each inner mechanism.
-Case-
42mm x 14mm 3 piece, 316 series stainless steel case
Screw-down case back
Curved K1 hardened mineral crystal w/ anti-reflective coating
Exhibition back w/ decorated Cotes de Geneve bridges & rotor

-Movement-
Automatic modified TY-606 movement w/ 23 jewels

-Dial-
Visible balance window
Date subsidiary dial
Day/night window
Luminous hands

-Band-
200mm x 22mm Remborde constructed genuine stitched leather strap

-Buckle-
316 series stainless steel buckle

-Water Resist-
Up to 3 ATM

-Warranty-
One year limited manufacturer's warranty

Charles Edouard Jacot's career in watch making began when he was merely 17. He visited Le Locle where his uncle, Abram Louis Perrelet, lived and worked. The next year, in 1837, Jacot went overseas to help another uncle, Louis Matthey, in his watch case repair workshop in New York City. This shop also imported and repaired watches, where Jacot’s work expertise was most utilized. Matthey had already come to the States to set up his shop in 1825, though in 1839, he sold most of the interest in the firm to Jacot and George Courvoiser. Both Matthey and Jacot continued working for the firm until Charles left in 1857 and moved back to Switzerland.