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Jaeger-LeCoultre, Watchmaking At It's Finest.

The Global Champions Tour is proud to continue its partnership with Jaeger-LeCoultre, manufacturers of beautiful watches, as official timekeeper and partner for the 2011 season. The Swiss company which was established 175 years ago is based in the village of Le Sentier which itself is in Vallee de Joux, the centre of world renowned Swiss watch making. Here are some facts about the company whose commitment to precision and excellence melds so well with that of Jan Tops and the show series he devised.

All Jaeger-LeCoutre watches are made entirely on location in their own premises and assembled entirely by hand.

There are 1000 staff employed by the company and a quarter of those, 250, are watch makers.

Each watch maker must learn up to 20 different cutting technologies and there are 40 different professions involved.

A watch will take between 2 and 4 years from design until it is ready to go into production.

The watch movement may contain up to 1300 tiny individual parts.

Atmos, one of the companies trademark ranges, relies on a movement which hangs on a steel wire finer than a strand of hair.

The Company will be presenting one of these timepieces, a modern work of art, to the winner of seven GCT Grand Prix for the 2011 season.