page_title: Jaeger-LeCoultre
section_title: Notable patrons and owners
hierarchical_section_title: Jaeger-LeCoultre / Notable patrons and owners
caption_attribution_description: Pocket watch, Ch.Bertoud. Switzerland, 1890. Yellow gold. Patrimoine Jaeger-LeCoultre
context_page_description: Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre SA, or simply Jaeger-LeCoultre, is a Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer founded by Antoine LeCoultre in 1833 and is based in Le Sentier, Switzerland. Since 2000, the company has been a fully owned subsidiary of the Swiss luxury group Richemont.
  Jaeger-LeCoultre is regarded as a top-tier Richemont brand. It has hundreds of inventions, patents and over one thousand movements to its name, including the world's smallest movement, one of the world's most complicated wristwatches, and a timepiece of near-perpetual movement.
caption: A Jaeger-LeCoultre pocket watch
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