Jaegar LeCoultre is one of the best names in horology, and they’ve been making some of the world’s best watches for hundreds of years.

The Club is a classically-styled dress watch from the 1960s with a simple dial featuring the brand’s logo and stick hour indices, and complemented by black stick minutes and hour hands and a gold seconds hand. This type of watch is all about clean lines and legibility, and that translates into a classic style that works in any decade.

JLC introduced the Club as a more affordable line to broaden their market base, and just like they did in the 1960s and 1970s, put more collectors within reach of owning a watch from one of the most prestigious brands. Today JLC is known as a master of complications, producing innovate tourbillons, minute repeaters and perpetual calendars. Throughout their history, Le Coultre has been one of the choice watchmakers for monarchs, business leaders and celebrities. You’d be hard-pressed today to find a watch collector who doesn’t hold JLC in high esteem.

Many of our clients focus on sports watches, but they come to us looking for a dress watch to wear on those occasions when a thick steel case is just too much on the wrist. For the collector who really isn’t a dress watch guy at heart, we usually recommend something like the JLC Club, a watch from a great brand with a classic look that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. Sure, a Patek Philippe Calatrava is great, but if you’re more of a dive watch guy, something like that probably wouldn't speak to you anyway.

Go for the Club, you’ll be happy you did.