Jaeger-LeCoultre (JLC) is one of the significant and very positive surprises of the fair "Watches & Wonders 2026": they presented -- many think their first but: -- their second luxury sportswatch with an integrated bracelet and a thin quantieme-perpetual with moon & seconds-hand besides some other impressive news. The star is indeed the excellent thin case & integrated bracelet: technically & optically a well thought and done product. Congratulations.
The inspiration for it came obviously from their last vintage Chronometre, the cal906 which was housed in their first ever luxury sportswatch with integrated bracelet, the ref24000 (left). As we pointed out several times in our blog (see below) this is probably one of their most overlooked watches, when taken its relevance and importance into account. Presented in 1973 -- and so just weeks (!) after the pioneering Royal Oak opened up the luxury-sportswatch-field -- and positioned as a bastion against the uprising electronic watches: the cal906, a robust, interesting and superior automatic-movement, that was used by Vacheron Constantin as well as cal1096 in their Chronometre Royal ref42001. It remained always in the shadows of its siblings (Royal Oak, Ingenieur, 222, Nautilus) and one reason is probably that it was a very early sportswatch (1973), when the trend had not yet taken off and another that it was made in much lower quantities than any of the others.
I can see a fresh breeze here and so a long overdue positive move at JLC and you can see our JLC-stock here: *klikk