Jaeger-LeCoultre - history of pocket watches

Circa 1850 Royal hunter-type watch

1862 Keyless pocket watch

1870 Hunter-type watch with complete calendar

1870 Pocket watch with triple calendar and moon phases

1880 Minute repeater with independent deadbeat seconds

1890 Minute repeater watch with annual calendar

1907 Knife or Couteau pocket watch

1910 Haute Joaillerie minute repeater

Circa 1920 Ultra Thin Minute Repeater

1928 Double Complication pocket watch

1928 Grande Complication pocket watch

Circa 1930 Ultra-thin 'Knife' pocket watch

1934 Pocket watch with perpetual calendar

1946 Tourbillon Chronometer

Jaeger-LeCoultre website

Jaeger-LeCoultre Facebook page

Richard Mille - RM 20 Pocket Watch

Baptiste Giabiconi rocking the RM 20

Richard Mille website

Richard Mille Facebook page

Speake-Marin - Triad

Speake-Marin website

Speake-Marin Facebook page

Hodinkee's review

Cartier - Rotonde de Cartier Perpetual Calendar Chronograph

Cartier website

Cartier Facebook page

Watch Time's review

Louis Moinet - Compteur de Tierces, 1816 Chronograph

Now this I love! What an amazing discovery. Follow the links below to hear about the earlier-than-realised invention of the chronograph by Louis Moinet.

YouTube video about the chronograph, showing it in action:
LOUIS MOINET - The Inventor of the chronograph


Watchonista's page of information and links

Quill and Pad's article


Louis Moinet website

Louis Moinet Faceook page

Louis Moinet - Meteoris

I find that my aesthetic tastes tend to appreciate form that follows function, and I rarely gravitate towards add-ons that are not self-explanatory. I understand the desire to express the historical link between horology and astronomy, but it seems to me that having pieces of meteorite in a watch is pointless unless the wearer is prepared to inform everyone: "Hey, my watch has pieces of meteorite in it. You'll need to take my word for it, just as I'm taking someone else's." Even putting diamonds on a watch takes it too close to ornamentation and further away from a functionally engineered mechanism for my personal taste. I like my jewels to be usefully employed in the bearings.
As such, I am half fascinated by Louis Moinet's Meteoris unique piece. The half that fascinates me is the planetarium/orrery of the full solar system (the work of Rémy Chauvin), with its visible gears representing the invisible gravity responsible for the movement of the celestial bodies. Just as a watch or clock represents the passage of the more recently man-made units of time, an orrery represents the movements of our original indices: the sun, moon, planets and stars.
The other half of this set consists of four tourbillon watches.
Which part do you prefer?

Louis Moinet website

Louis Moinet Facebook page

A Blog to Watch's review