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Old 25 June 2020, 09:30 AM   #1
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JLC Geophysic True Second-Out of Production?

Can anyone confirm this? If true does anyone know any AD's with them in stock?
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Old 25 June 2020, 11:02 AM   #2
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Sorry not sure, but I’ve seen a number of them on grey sites. The dead beat seconds complication is very cool. I personally can’t get over it looking like a quartz movement though.
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Old 25 June 2020, 11:30 AM   #3
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Sorry not sure, but I’ve seen a number of them on grey sites. The dead beat seconds complication is very cool. I personally can’t get over it looking like a quartz movement though.
I prefer to think of quartz mimicking the deadbeat movement which has been around way longer than quartz technology.
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Old 25 June 2020, 11:39 AM   #4
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It’s a great watch, I participated in a watchmaking class at the JLC boutique a while ago where we took apart and reassembled the movement from that watch. I heard the same thing, that it was/or would be discontinued, certainly worth picking up. I really like the world time variant.
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Old 25 June 2020, 12:56 PM   #5
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The entire Geophysic line seems to have disappeared from their website a few days ago.

Wondering if it's all really killed? Or just a mistake?
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Old 25 June 2020, 05:09 PM   #6
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Shame if it is gone forever. The new JLC releases have all been fantastic so hopefully a new version will be released soon.
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Old 25 June 2020, 10:22 PM   #7
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It is a very cool watch in concept.

I looked at buying it twice. Each time the one I saw had an issue with the second hand stopping on the markers. In each case the dials were half on and half off and drove me nuts.

I am not sure they could make it work.
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I spoke with JLC CS today and they confirmed the Geophysic TS line has been discontinued with no replacement currently planned.

I've seen three True Seconds (2 silver dial and a Geographic) at various AD's. All 3 hit the markers perfectly. The direction of light source or angle of view can make them 'appear' misaligned due to the reflections of the hands on the silver dials.
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Old 25 June 2020, 11:37 PM   #9
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I prefer to think of quartz mimicking the deadbeat movement which has been around way longer than quartz technology.
That is fair. Quartz has been around longer than me though so I guess it’s all about perspective The geophysic is a gorgeous piece.
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Old 25 June 2020, 11:56 PM   #10
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I spoke with JLC CS today and they confirmed the Geophysic TS line has been discontinued with no replacement currently planned.

I've seen three True Seconds (2 silver dial and a Geographic) at various AD's. All 3 hit the markers perfectly. The direction of light source or angle of view can make them 'appear' misaligned due to the reflections of the hands on the silver dials.
If I had seen one of them I might have bought the watch

The pieces I saw and shot video of were all very noticeable to me, the salesperson and the sales manager.
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I saw 3 of these when they came out at different Boutiques/AD and the seconds hand did not perfectly align on any of them. It only occurred at a couple of markers and was consistent but different for each of the pieces I looked at. It was not due to the angle of light. Otherwise I would have purchased one.

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I spoke with JLC CS today and they confirmed the Geophysic TS line has been discontinued with no replacement currently planned.

I've seen three True Seconds (2 silver dial and a Geographic) at various AD's. All 3 hit the markers perfectly. The direction of light source or angle of view can make them 'appear' misaligned due to the reflections of the hands on the silver dials.
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Old 5 July 2020, 01:27 PM   #12
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Seen removed from website sadly - beautiful watches


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