While the history of Fine Watchmaking is studded with inventions and technical accomplishments, one of them in particular opened up whole new vistas for the entire field: the Calibre 101. Created in 1929 in the workshops of the Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Watches, this prodigious feat of micromechanical engineering has been a watchmaking icon for 80 years. 80 years of uninterrupted history, of consistent advancement and creativity.

In 2009, Jaeger-LeCoultre chose the Venice Film Festival as the venue in which to celebrate the world’s smallest movement.

Six very different and equally stunning watches commemorate this anniversary with a blend of grace and inspiration, treating the infinitely small to an infinitely broad variety of expressive variations.

As if carried by the wind, a leaf settles on the wrist and encircles it with brilliance.

Its plant-like lines are enhanced with brilliant-cut and baguette-cut diamonds hiding the Calibre 101: the leaf-shaped cover lifts to reveal the passing of time and then closes to help put it out of mind.