Spectacular launch for the new Jaeger-LeCoultre Diving collection, with a dive filmed at a depth of 1,080 metres in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, off the Hawaiian island of Lanai.
It was a model like the one in the photo, the Master Compressor Diving GMT (waterproof up to 1,000 metres) that was lowered with a steel cable to the exceptional depth of 1,080 metres, tied to the outside of a watertight tube that contained a camera, which recorded the entire descent.
The equipment for the experiment was supplied by the Australian company TMT (Total Marine Technology), specialising in the manufacture of underwater robots for the inspection and repair of oil pipelines or ocean platforms for oil extraction.
Pictured is the boat used for the experiment and Jerome Lambert (right), CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre, pictured on the boat with Tom Pado, founder of TMT.
A real robot, then, produced by TMT for Jaeger-LeCoultre, was used to film the descent to 80 metres of the Master Compressor Diving Pro Geographic model, with depth gauge. A camera filmed the operation of the watch's depth gauge in water, compared with a professional depth gauge. At a depth of 80 metres, the difference between the two displays was 2 metres.
Full details of the watches and the event will be published in the August/September issue of L'Orologio, due out at the end of July...
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