In the year 1903 Edmond Jaeger, a Parisian, asked Jacques-David LeCoultre, a grandson of Antoine who had founded LeCoultre in 1833, to manufacture an ultra thin caliber that would precisely match his explicit design specifications. In the meantime, Cartier who was a famous French jeweler and a friend of Jaeger-leCoultre, asked the company to exclusively provide movement designs for his ...more»