Jaeger-LeCoultre est fier d‘associer ses 175 ans d‘histoire à l‘expertise et au talent de Valentino Rossi, qui a pour la huitième fois gagné hier le titre de champion du monde (sixième fois en GP) au Grand Prix du Japon à Motegi.
Jaeger-LeCoultre is proud to associate its 175 years of history with the expertise and the talent of Valentino Rossi, who claims eight world title and won a sixth World Championship crown in the Japanese MotoGP at Motegi.
There is nothing more natural than a collaboration between two world-beaters who boast peerless records of achievement in their chosen fields. For both the prodigious young Italian champion and the watchmaking Manufacture first established in the Vallée de Joux in 1833, the ceaseless quest for perfection and an unquenchable thirst for technical innovation are the keys to unequalled success.
Master Compressor Extreme World Chronograph 46 , Master Compressor Extreme World Alarm 46 , and a few more... these are the watches of world-beaters. Jaeger-LeCoultre is proud of his collaboration with the genius.
It was a crap season in 2007 and then when I heard about the deaths of Colin McRae and Norick Abe [two of his motor sport heroes] I thought, ‘This is the worst year ever,‘ he said. But losing has made me grow up. I thought I was a little bit unbeatable, but I‘ve come back stronger. This has been the hardest championship of all.
It is proof of Rossi‘s maturing that he has opened up an unassailable lead with three races remaining. Rossi has not won at Motegi since 2001, the year he clinched the first of his six elite titles. 2008, 8 world title... 8, a lucky digit in Asia could not be more suitable for him than yesterday.
You can‘t raise yourself to the position of world number one - and remain there - without possessing genius. Still ahead of their time after 175 years in the watchmaking avant-garde, Jaeger-LeCoultre knows this. So too does Valentino Rossi, today eight-times world champion at the age of just 29.
1833-2008 : 175 years of history
A major player in watchmaking history, Jaeger-LeCoultre is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year. The Grande Maison in the Vallée de Joux is taking this opportunity to reread some of the finest pages in its ongoing epic and to write some even more beautiful ones. The Manufacture has an impressive range of world firsts, superlatives and legendary models to its credit, including the Reverso, the Duoplan, the Master Control, the Memovox Polaris, the Gyrotourbillon I and the Atmos.
In 2008, around 1000 people mastering over 40 watchmaking professions and over 20 cutting-edge technologies will continue to pay tribute to the pioneering spirit of the House founders by creating new masterpieces in harmony with the grand watchmaking tradition. In 2010, pursuing the multiple extensions around Antoine LeCoultre‘s original workshop,
Jaeger-LeCoultre will welcome a new building providing 9,000 square metres of additional workshops.
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