Maurice Lacroix / 1975 Legacy

Key Highlights

• Three limited-edition 40 mm automatic watches marking 50 years of Maurice Lacroix in Saignelégier.
• Vagues du Jura dial motif inspired by the Franches-Montagnes landscape.
• Trio of complications: date-only, day-date and dual-time GMT.
• Steel finishing, Easy Strap Exchange system and water resistance up to 10 ATM on selected references.
• Limited runs of 888, 500 and 200 pieces emphasise the commemorative nature of the series.

A 50-Year Tribute to Saignelégier

The 1975 Legacy marks 50 years of Maurice Lacroix in Saignelégier with a trilogy that links the Manufacture’s origins to today’s collections. Rooted in the Franches-Montagnes, the watches translate the Jura landscape into a shared design language across three executions.

Each model uses a 40 mm stainless-steel case with alternating brushed and polished surfaces and, on selected references, a box-shaped sapphire crystal. The Vagues du Jura pattern appears on every dial, depicting the surrounding hills and giving each reference a clear sense of place.

1975 Automatic Saignelégier Blue – 888 Pieces

The 1975 Automatic Saignelégier Blue is the most streamlined of the trio, focusing on time and date. Its dial revives the historic Saignelégier Blue tone from the archives and pairs it with the Vagues du Jura texture beneath facetted dauphine hands and trapeze-shaped, hand-applied indexes.

A colour-matched date at 3 o’clock with silver-toned frame keeps the display cohesive, while the automatic ML155 calibre allows a 9 mm case height with a 56-hour power reserve and 10 ATM water resistance. Visible through a sapphire caseback, the movement is decorated with perlage, colimaçon and a rotor bearing Côtes de Genève and the Vagues du Jura motif, and the caseback is engraved “Limited Edition of 888 pcs”.

A blue leather strap with debossed M-logo and the Easy Strap Exchange system completes the watch.

1975 Automatic Day Date Sapin Green – 500 Pieces

The 1975 Automatic Day Date Sapin Green takes its dial tone from the fir trees around Saignelégier, combining a Sapin Green Vagues du Jura surface with a box sapphire crystal. Dauphine hands, trapeze indexes and a date at 3 o’clock are joined by a day aperture at 12 o’clock.

The automatic ML168 calibre provides a 38-hour power reserve inside a 40 mm stainless-steel case 10 mm thick and water-resistant to 5 ATM. A solid caseback engraved with a Jura landscape and two horses among fir trees references the Franches-Montagnes horse breed, while a five-row stainless-steel bracelet with alternating brushed and polished links, engraved “Limited Edition of 500 pcs” and fitted with the Easy Strap Exchange system, secures the watch.

1975 Automatic GMT Silver Mist – 200 Pieces

The 1975 Automatic GMT Silver Mist adds dual-time functionality to the trilogy. Its silver-toned Vagues du Jura dial evokes hills under morning mist and sits beneath a box sapphire crystal, while golden-toned facetted dauphine hands and trapeze indexes stand out against the surface.

Black printed Arabic numerals and a date at 3 o’clock echo the other models, and a co-axial, openworked GMT hand with a lozenge-shaped aperture and red tip tracks home time around the dial. Behind a solid, nature-engraved caseback marked “Limited Edition of 200 pcs”, the automatic ML165 calibre offers a 56-hour power reserve and is paired with a black alligator imitation leather strap featuring a PVD 4N M-logo on the stainless-steel deployant buckle and the Easy Strap Exchange system.

Why It Matters

For collectors in the GCC, the Maurice Lacroix 1975 Legacy concentrates the brand’s Saignelégier heritage into three Swiss-made references with landscape cues, useful complications and tightly limited runs. The versatile 40 mm format, extended power reserves on selected models and Easy Strap Exchange system suit modern, travel-oriented lifestyles across the region.

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