Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Hometime Owner Review : Different, paradoxical and classy

This watch follows an unchallenged domination of my Omega Seamaster 300 that lasted almost 20 years. A sudden desire for a watch with a silver dial, rather dressy, to change from my diver with whom I shared so many moments of life. The JLC manufacture has always been one of those that make me dream, but curiously not for the Reverso, rather for its round and technical watches, with crowns called compressor... After hours of surfing the net to identify a model that speaks to me, I find this model on Chronext at a very reasonable price. A model that I did not know and on which there are few articles. The second time zone displayable by shifting one of the two hour hands, a 24-hour indicator... I tell myself that I am going to travel a little with this watch. When I received it, my first feeling was a great disappointment... The watch is 40 mm in diameter, but seems larger because the dial is relatively open, moreover its thickness is greater than I thought. The bracelet is not original and is of poor quality... in short, I don't like this JLC too much. But I'm keeping it anyway, my wife finds it very beautiful, my children too... but I will need a little time, that I discover it little by little by dint of contemplating it and dressing it as it deserves. So I observe it and gradually I fall under the charm of this dial more complex than it seems, of these very worked sub-dials (guilloché for the day display, striated for the night, in vinyl groove for the small second), its perfectly polished indexes, these alpha hands... And then this date window, which finally is well proportioned and responds to this 9 a little alone. But the little extra thing was to replace the strap with a custom-made coffee bean crocodile by Camille Fournet, it gave the watch back the little warm charm that it was missing despite everything. A sapphire caseback to admire the movement, even if I admit I never contemplate it, but when it goes back to the safe I can't help but look at it, even if it's not the most beautiful of calibers, but how reliable! Finally, I wear it quite rarely, I get tired of it quite quickly and it doesn't stay on my wrist for more than a few days. I always have the feeling that it would deserve to be a little thinner and of a slightly smaller diameter... but I always enjoy finding it again after some time spent with its little sisters.