JLC - What do you think?

[boxster9]

I have recently come across this brand. After looking at a few IWC portuguese watches, I am tempted to go for a JLC master, either master date or master geographic. What do people think about these watches? and where does the brand lie in the whole scheme of things.
cheers for any advice

[sparkyhx]

boxster9 said:

I have recently come across this brand. After looking at a few IWC portuguese watches, I am tempted to go for a JLC master, either master date or master geographic. What do people think about these watches? and where does the brand lie in the whole scheme of things.
cheers for any advice

generally above IWC - The Portugese is one of the more expensive IWC's and the Master Compressor one of the cheapest JLC's.

JLC do all in house movements, IWC as a rule fiddle with standard movements quite extensively and do some inhouse ones (I think the portugese maybe one of the inhouse ones - but I may be wrong.

[markomah]

JLC make great watches and I think you would be hard put to find anyone who rated them equal to or below IWC. A quick internet search will give you a good idea of the history of the brand.

[tertius]

sparkyhx said:

boxster9 said:

I have recently come across this brand. After looking at a few IWC portuguese watches, I am tempted to go for a JLC master, either master date or master geographic. What do people think about these watches? and where does the brand lie in the whole scheme of things.
cheers for any advice

generally above IWC - The Portugese is one of the more expensive IWC's and the Master Compressor one of the cheapest JLC's.

JLC do all in house movements, IWC as a rule fiddle with standard movements quite extensively and do some inhouse ones (I think the portugese maybe one of the inhouse ones - but I may be wrong.

Portuguese is generally based on a heavily modified Valjoux 7750 (the Regulateur is an exception).

As sparky says J-LC only use in-house movements and occasionally supply other houses, they are utterly gorgeous, perhaps a shade below Patek, but only a shade. I have a Master Date - far and away my favourite watch.

[NDA]

I have a few JLC watches including my 'Jimmy Saville' with gold strap

They are beautiful. 'Proper' watches as someone once said. IWC are lovely, but not quite in the same league.

I'm not quite sure what the league table would be actually - IWC, Rolex, JLC, Patek, Breguet....?