If you’re a watch enthusiast or collector, then you’re likely familiar with all of the heavy hitters in the crowded luxury dive watch space.
The Rolex Submariner. The Omega Seamaster Diver 300M. The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. The Tudor Black Bay. Then there are those luxury dive watches that fly a bit more under the radar, like the Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris Date.
JLC’s entry-level sporty dive watch is overshadowed by the brand’s flagship Reverso dress watch, but it shouldn’t be slept on. Its combination of bar-raising dial finishing, an evolved retro design and an impressive movement all add up to a serious contender for your dive watch dollars.
Especially now, as JLC has just made some major improvements to its diver … while also slashing its price considerably.
Save the Date
First things first, JLC has not thrown the baby out with the bathwater for its latest incarnation of the Polaris Date. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to even find the difference between the new model and the older version unless you had them both in your hand at the same time.
That’s because the only thing that’s really changed here is the case size. Previously only available as a relatively oversized 42mm watch with a beefy thickness of 13.92mm, JLC has managed to shrink down the Polaris Date substantially without sacrificing anything.
